I am a big fan of DMSO. I had some keratotic lesions on my face that were growing. One on the cheek and one on the forehead. The one on the cheek became larger than a dime, and the one on my forehead was close to that size. I was going to see a dermatologist for removal, but had the idea to try DMSO first. I started with 70/30. No effect. I went to 100% DMSO and the lesions were completely gone in 4 months of daily treatment up to 6 times a day of topical application. I applied the dropper directly to the lesions with just enough DMSO to cover them without running down my face. I am careful not to use 100% DMSO except for tough lesions. The skin irritation can be profound, but does resolve quickly by discontinuing use. I also drink 7 drops a day in my morning water and I have noticed less night time waking for urination. I am 64, so this is an issue for many of us. Wonderful stuff! Glad you are making more people aware of DMSO. I use the one in your picture on the right. Most people have no idea how this product can benefit them. Many will never break the programming of our horrible illness care system. I read many of your writings, and I appreciate your approach to health. Blessings.
I’m looking forward to this as I have issues difficult to manage. I use DMSO and cloves which is helpful. I’m also now rinsing and holding 70/30, distilled water which is not effective enough. I can’t find any info on the mixing of DMSO/ Peroxide which would great if safe.
I, with many of my patients as reported, returned to eating healthy, free-range meats, dairy and eggs which we grow ourselves after years of veganism and other diets...And, we too returned to health and even experienced CRAVING all upon returning to consuming them.
It was as though our bodies had been starving.
Amazing...How so many of us were indoctrinated and brainwashed for so many years of our lives.
How can I become a patient of yours? Or, find a doctor like you in Florida? I'll be 70 next month and seriously seeking your type healthcare for this late phase of life. Im recently widowed and would like to "live" again with a bit more vitality than I have, for whatever time I have left. 🥰🙏
I've been very healthy through life. I just now begun high blood pressure meds in June and take lowest dose thyroid med. That's it. I'm considered pre-diabetic for last 4-5 years. Sleep is an issue. (I just finished your GHB article!) Heart disease and stroke are fatal on both sides of my family.
This is an older article so this question may not get many eyes - still, nowhere else to put it. I previously thought that a D-dimer test would show if there is micro-clotting, but have read that the clots from the shot do not break down enough to show up on such a test. Three questions please: other than live blood analysis (if that does show the clots) how would one know that they are in the body? How to break them down (is Nattokinase effective)? And will applying DMSO to the carotids still work for someone who has a stroke from a spiked clot? Thank you AMD and/or to whomever can answer.
I understand DMSO has helped with brain injuries. Has it shown to be effective for those that experience seizures such as people who have been diagnosed with epilepsy?
Maybe research the antisposmatic herb, lobilia. I make a tincture at home and it resolves any spasms, contracting of muscles almost instantly. That is technically what is happening in the body during a seizure. A massive contraction and spasm of the body.
This doesn't necessarily treat the seizure itself, but may be just relaxing muscles. Hard to say without eeg and imaging to follow it. But if it works, then hey! Good! With just speculation, you could also take an OTC gaba supplement. In the hospital, I treat seizures with benzos, barbiturates, and gaba-helping medications like keppra, etc. if I really want to quiet the brain, I'll give a slug of propofol (with respiratory support). All of these promote gaba uptake. Just a thought.
I subscribed because of the DMSO article. I am looking forward to the other parts on it. I am a retired CPA learning to take care of my health in a natural way using a functional medicine doctor and reading everything I can find online like your substack, Dr Mercola's website, Deep Roots at Home website, and FLCCC. I thank God for all of you and your courage and dedication to truth and not allowing the bullies on the internet or in conventional medicine to stop you. God bless you!
Like a comment from an earlier post, you are truly an angel, a deliverer to so many of us, giving us Support to continue going forward on a less corrupted path to a healthier, more autonomous life. I found you early on during the Covid hysteria. Luckily, I’d made the decision and convinced my husband not to get the jabs. Like swimming upstream! Most all our friends couldn’t wait to get them. And all have had major events a a result.
Your posts help educate me going forward.
I am a 74 yo healthy, 130lb. Midwestern female with no preexisting conditions and I take NO prescriptions, only supplements. I was diagnosed via CT several years ago with suspicious “spots” in both lower lungs.
I immediately worked with a naturopath via phone ( she in WA, I’m in MO) Since then they’ve gotten no worse. She sent me some tinctures and recommended I drink Essaic tea. I also had been following Dr Brownstein in MI before the world went Covid crazy. I nebulize hydrogen peroxide in saline sometimes adding Lugol’s iodine. I have a pulmonary doc who is sensible and didn’t recommend a biopsy, but adopted a watch and wait stance. He isn’t sure what they are…..cancer, parasite, infection….🤷♀️
I would like to see you publish a book with all your past posts. The amount of information that you include in them is staggering. I was a nursing major decades ago before I had to drop out; I feel you’ve continued my education.
Until big pharma is reformed, we must all look to our diets and more natural ways to help ourselves. Food is medicine and nature supplies much of what we need to stay healthy, we just have to uncover it. You are helping do that. Many, many thanks!
Ditto. I've used it topically with magnesium oil in the past. I have gotten lazy and probably haven't done it consistently in the past couple of years. This article helped sparked a re-interest into starting DMSO back again.
Doc, thank you very much for the research into this compound. I’m a working EMT in FL. Relatively healthy and working 2-3 shifts per week. I also have gout and have occasional flare up’s. I’m on 300MG of Allopurinol QD. Today I had to cancel my shift due to swollen tender joints - left lateral ankle area and right medial knee joint. I started using 70% DMSO yesterday topically. I’m noticing some decrease in swelling but still too painful to work. I am not looking for a Dx, just asking if taking a small amount orally w/ water would increase the effectiveness and shorten the time to resolution?
My husband drinks organic DARK tart cherry juice in water almost religiously now. He had gout and was told to drink only the dark, with no sugar, and his gout symptoms went away almost immediately. He dilutes it in a glass of water so that it is not so strong and tart. Has had no symptoms since.
I was introduced to Dark Cherry unsweetened juice when I had a temporary flare-up of gout, never in my life. I was out of State on a Running program and didn't eat the foods I normally eat, went swimming in chlorinated water, a few sugar drinks and wham, flared up could hardly walk for about a week. I started with the DMSO, which greatly helped, and then the juice with some lemon in it to clear the joints of lactic acid buildup. No pain meds, I did use some arnica at the start, but that was it. I haven't had a flare-up since then, which was a few years ago. But any time the muscles or joints get sore I use DMSO, and sometimes with magnesium cream that I make.
Is one of those a simple guide for using DMSO orally, or topically? I have read your articles, and its pretty deep in the weeds for the lay reader. I understand though, since pèople want to be able to refer to something. I have been diluting 5ml in juice twice a day, but would be good to know ml/kg or similar. Although if its relatively non toxic, I might increase to 10ml twice a day just to see.
The Healing with DMSO A Complete Guide by Amanda Vollmer pdf is widely available. My computer (or Substack) is not letting me copy links today, but a search should present it. If it's about 211-213 pp, it's the one.
MUCH easier to work our your treatments using this guide.
Thanks, I read it, but its quite vague and general when coming to dosing. What is really needed for oral use is ml/kg. For example, I am 94kg, what is the maximum dose to titrate up to? I have been taking 10ml morning and night but not seen any benefits, and it seems there should be, but perhaps the dose is wrong.
Maybe this will help. I hope I'm understanding your question correctly:
The mg/kg is given, yes, very close to the bottom of the page?
1st start with your weight of 94kg and find the max mg/kg you want to try, and calculate how many mg that is.
2nd, use this weight to volume conversion--just enter DMSO in the search field and there's a dropdown field, select what is correct. https://www.aqua-calc.com/calculate/volume-to-weight That will give you cubic centimeters.
For example a dose I'm considering trying is 0.1g/kg for my weight of 63kg. That comes to a bit over 5.7 cc's, or 1.15 tsp. So of course I'll just do 1-1/8th tsp then a drop more.
The ml/kg is given close to the bottom of which page? I can do the math, I just don't have any numbers to use ? The Midwestern Dr has written screeds on it, and I'm sold on it, but ml/kg would be the most useful thing
i'll see if i can find it. What strength DMSO are you using? I think that is why they say mg/kg: some DMSO is diluted and some is full strength. the ml will not be the same. The diluted stuff takes more ml to deliver the same number of mg, as a full strength solution does.
I have full strength. Mostly i think it is full strength right? but just in case, is yours full strength or is it already diluted?
It's medical grade 100% DMSO. Yes--say rather, I would only use a topical preparation that I would also take internally. It gets into the body either way, and the skin does not act as a filter. I am not using it right now because I had a PRP injection and have to do nothing to affect my platelets or anything else.
I subscribed due to this article. I was paralyzed (c5) 30 years ago this coming November due to a dtap causing transverse myelitis. In 2020 I began to recover some movement in my left arm and torso and I don’t even know how so I am very hopeful that this will help. Thank you for taking the time to do write this!
How are you doing? Have you implemented DMSO? I had bad MS flare in ‘14, that still has my once dominant, not so dominant and weak. What if?!!
I fell again today and sure could use DMSO right now for several owies that happened. Ugh
I’m just learning about it & trying to figure it lol out. Wish I knew someone who can give it to me straight. I have a tendency to overthink & complicate.
It must have been something like 60 years ago that I first read about DMSO.
In those pre Internet days, particularly after inquiring about it with some friends who were MDs, I got the response that it was quackery nonsense. Never heard anything about it since, except vague mentions now and then, until THIS article which is well researched and of great interest.
We now must wonder what other promising treatments or drugs are being blocked by a medical establishment centered on FDA and associated agencies.
It is clear that the time for massive systemic reforms has arrived.
It is also clear that Harris-Walz will NOT do it, are apparently not even thinking about it while they engage in their WEF open borders undermine citizenship and sovereignty acts.
There is a guy named RFK Jr. who will do it and who has joined with Trump. I don't care if you like or hate them. The point is, will they do the reforms ? THEY WILL.
Trump is not a medical guy, he is a manager. He was easily fooled by the establishment last time into believing that the vaccines were the only viable treatment for Covid-19 as Dr. Scott Atlas mentions in his book "A Plague Upon Our House". This time is different.
I've only done 1 treatment so far. I have a low level bacterial infection that shows up in my blood work but doesn't really bother me. I will find out in about 6 months when I get my next lab work. I'll try to update. I'm doing a combo of UVBI with ozone.
You certainly have and more. While I'm here I want to let you know that I found 70/30 DMSO mixed with distilled water, aloe, and lavender, the brand you recommend DMSO Store on eBay. They have a huge selection of sizes of gels and liquids there. The 70/30 mixes are 3oz. liquid roll-on, Here's the link to their store And thanks so much for everything you do for us all, you have a heart of gold💛: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ssn=dmsostore&_trksid=p2560298.m570.l50838
Sure thing! As a quick point, that's a different company than the one I recommended (two different groups are using that name), but if they help you that's all that matters.
Reforms aren't the answer. As long as you allow centralized power to exist, it will eventually be taken over by society's psychopaths and sociopaths. Central power always and everywhere leads to corruption and abuse. The only way forward, in science, government and economics, are decentralized systems. Reforms merely postpone the inevitable unless you decentralize all power.
my thinking exactly! As you said, "central power always and everywhere leads to corruption and abuse!" That's why I believe we have government upside down and backwards! We let States tell the local governments (city and county) what to do, and we let the Fed's tell the States AND the cities/counties what to do. That hierarchy is backwards. Local government should be at the TOP of the hierarchy. That is, once the city or county decides to do or not do something, the State and the Fed's should NOT be able to override the decision of the local government. What kind of government is it that lets some bureaucrat 2500 miles distant tell the people who live here, work here, raise their families here, what they can and cannot do. That's not democracy, it's tyranny! Local democracy is the only true democracy in my opinion.
The Founders of the US had the right idea, but that was all upturned by Lincoln and the Civil War. Slavery was the pretense, but the real reason was to take power away from the States and consolidate power in the capital of the empire.
I agree. For some reason a huge portion of the population believes that a powerful central government is a good thing. I don't think there has ever been a country where such a government didn't end up in tyranny.
We are actually supposed to be a Constitutional Republic. The victors (tyrants) have re-written history and indcotrinated the public to brainwash the masses that we are a democracy.
of course. so I should rephrase my statement "local democracy is the only true democracy" to read "local democratic republic is the only true democratic republic". The reason that this is true is because concentrated power (like at the national level) always gets corrupted over time. I believe that is one reason why the founders intended most power to stay at state level and not at the national level. We can see what has happened to concentrated power at the FDA, CDC, and the other federal bureaucracies, that they have been corrupt for decades at least. Get rid of all these "regulatory" agencies which have been corrupted so that they now act as marketing arms for the very industries they are supposed to be regulating.
Truth be told, the FDA and CDC are not a part of the federal government. They're corporations masking as federal agencies just like the Federal Reserve.
semantics. they operate at the federal level, they have control over the entire country when it comes to regulating drugs and vaccines. Get rid of them and all the other 3 and 4 letter agencies. FEMA recently showed us they are either incompetent or deliberately killing people. BLS recently showed us they lied for a year about the number of new jobs created, "overstated" (lied) that number by nearly a million jobs. Get rid of them!
regarding the Federal Reserve, that's a whole 'nother can of worms, but won't go down that rabbit hole here ;-)
I so wish these UNCONSTITUTIONAL 3 letter agencies would be abolished….It MUST be handed back to the STATES!!!!!! The DS was able to do what it has done because of this problem!!!!!
I am lucky enough to have read a book about DMSO back in the early 1980's that convinced me that not only is it safe, but it can facilitate healing. There was a time period after that where the only place I could get it was at agriculture supply stores. People who kept horses knew that it worked for accelerating healing of joint/tendon/ligament/muscle injuries, so the FDA would have had a real battle on their hands had they decided to take on these folks, so they let it continue to be sold in Ag stores.
The book pointed out the absurd lengths that the FDA went to demonize DMSO. They could not find a lethal dose! So they used enormous doses on rabbits, doses that if they were testing aspirin or alcohol it would have killed the rabbits, and the rabbits developed cataracts. That was it, that gave the FDA the excuse they needed to take it off the market (for a while, except at the Ag stores).
It may have been, but honestly I don't remember the title or the author. I found it browsing the shelves at the King Country library (Seattle area), early to mid-1980's. So the book would have been written about then or even in the 70's or 60's.
the way I see it is if the Dem's win, we will have more of the same, more censorship, more corporate control, more Pharma products rammed down our throat, vaccine mandates which could affect all of us next time, and a continuation of the war in Ukraine.
If Trump wins and they don't kill him, he will try to end the Ukraine war and he will let RFK Jr go after Pharma and vaccines.
Both parties will support Israel. But one party will stop the Ukraine war (which has had us on the brink of nuclear annihilation for more than 2 years) and that party will not force vaccines on all of us.
I get it that Trump is not a very nice person. But with him in office, at least we have a chance. With Kamala, we continue down the road of totalitarianism.
My wife has early onset Alzheimer's. July 2023, she quit feeding herself. Stage 7, can't walk, can't talk, and can't feed herself. Month by month there was continuing decline. Then she developed horrid bed sores, large open wounds. I greatly improved the diet, hygiene, and gave her my emergency use drugs, ivermectin and fendbendazole. It all worked, the bed sores are completely healed, and her skin is now fine. There was a side effect. It is now obvious, her Alzheimer's was caused by a brain infection, possibly a fungus. The two drugs are very good at treating infections. The decline stopped and there is definite evidence her remaining brain is recovering some ability. Now a year later, no further decline, and some mild recovery. Today she babbled, almost understandable, when I fed her. She drinks her milk by herself if I put the bottle in her hand.
After this article, I am going to try topical treatments of DMSO on her neck and back of her head. I am hoping that this will help with brain cells locked in a Cell Danger Response, (thanks doc.) and with blood flow and misfolded proteins. I will comment if it works, at least a month from now.
My husband is 100% disabled Vietnam vet, agent orange. He's got diabetes, neuropathy, torn rotator cuff, bursitis in hips & PTSD. He's in pain all the time despite taking 12 different meds, including 800 mg Gabapentin 4x's/day, Lidocaine patches & diclofenac sodium gel.
He's had 5 back surgeries, 4 in just the past 4 years:
2013 - first lumbar surgery
2021 - cervical neck surgery;
2022 - lumbar surgery again;
2023 - re-do of 2022 lumbar because bone didn't heal properly & screws came loose;
2024 - redo of 2021 cervical because bone didn't heal properly & screws came loose.
As soon as I read your article I drove to Tractor Supply & bought DMSO gel for animals. I came home & lathered it on hubby's feet, shoulder & lower back & hips. He finally got relief - better than all the other pain meds he's taking! He's cheered up.
Is there any way to get in touch with you? I have a lifelong friend whose 26 year old son who has been diagnosed with some sort of brain damage akin to "schizophrenia" --which the doctors at UCLA attribute to heavy marijuana use. He has had breakdowns and been hospitalized on a few occasions, now on pharmaceuticals that prevent psychosis, but he hates them and is overall just miserable. There seems no good end in sight for him. He is not the kids I have known since he was born. My idea is to find someone who can treat him wholistically, perhaps with DMSO and/or other "medicines" that have the chance of repairing or reversing the damage cause. Are there people or places that you could recommend? I would really appreciate any advice or referrals you could give me. Thank you.
My functional medicine doctor recommended DMSO 50% to her patients for Covid and flu prevention. Her instructions were to swab nasal passages twice a day. I had never heard of DMSO until then. It is amazing that DMSO can do so much. If only...my mother had a brain stem stroke 10 years ago. My brother-in-law has frontal lobe brain injury from a fall about 7 years ago. Both of them might have been helped in significant ways if DMSO had been available as a treatment option. Both struggle with normal daily living - needing constant help and attention. It makes me angry that FDA has abandoned its role of helping and protecting patients. Money is the root of this evil. Thank you, Thank you for all you do to bring truth and light to these issues.
The love of money is the root of all evil. Money is a necessity in this world whether we like it or not but there are those that thrive off the land can survive without it.
Intuitively, if the goal were to get DMSO to deep tissue, via the skin would seem the least efficient method. IV would be the quickest but isn't an option at home. That leaves orally, which would seem the best method and probably pretty fast especially on an empty stomach.
Our elderly dog Lana was having vestibular (balance) issues, which seemed to be triggered by TIAs (mini strokes). We started by giving her a small amount of Heiltropfen DMSO and magnesium. It nearly instantly resolved a symptom of erratic uncontrolled eye movements, and it very quickly greatly improved her balance issues (she still pulls to the right, but it's not too noticable when she walks). If we had known about DMSO sooner, we think we could have prevented some of her recent hearing and vision loss. We currently rub a small amount of a rose scented DMSO/aloe vera cream on her belly every day (which she loves to lick off!). We have gotten an extra year and a half with her so far. She was getting close to circling the drain before the DMSO. Grounding also helped a lot.
She also had a diseased tooth in the bottom right rear of her mouth, which the vet would have recommended pulling if she wasn't so frail. We spray 3000 ppm chlorine dioxide on it daily and it is showing significant signs of healing!
This was another fantastic article! Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge and experience with all of us!
I am so happy you left this comment. I've never heard of someone treating their pet's stroke with DMSO but it completely makes sense to me why it would work.
I wish I had known about this for my dog when he hit his head traveling in the car when I had to break hard for a deer. He developed vestibular issue immediately. I brought him to a nearby vet as an ER walk in. They had no solution but to wait it out. He recovered most of his functions but it was hell for 3 weeks. If I had known about this he could have been helped much sooner.
The great thing about being your own naturopathic doctor/vet is you can try it to see if it will help your dogs seizures. DMSO comes in 100% pure liquid too, which could be added to dogs water. A couple drops at first, depending on dog size. You can use a topical too but fur is a small problem as the DMSO needs to be on clean skin.
Amazon.com. there are many varieties of DMSO on Amazon. I use a aloe-vera gel (more expensive but easier on skin areas that may have more sensitive skin, like belly or lower back.) I use a roll-on product on my bad knee and on my legs to treat My own use of both gel and roll-on have taught me to make sure my skin is free from any products or lotions, because it will burn. DMSO does work. If you decide to use a gel or cream on your dog, I would try it on an areal where there is less fur, like belly, so it can be absorbed. Be sure to wipe the skin with a damp cloth because skin has to be clean or it will sting. DMSO will shove whatever is on your skin into your body, so clean dry skin is necessary. DMSO does not burn when skin is clean. Dog or human, I would assume.
I am glad to see other pet parents becoming their own vets. I have been my own doctor for a very long time and use DMSO myself. My really big girl is 11-ish and getting a bit limpy and slower. I give her CBD tincture but DMSO might be the perfect thing to help her. I love my dogs. They are my family.
Lana's still in great shape, but has some dementia, mainly sundowner's syndrome. We give her hemp treats to overcome some of the anxiety, which is something we need to bootleg into town, since we live in a state where hemp and CBD are illegal...
Lana weighs 30 pounds, and we currently have her on four drops, twice per day. She has survived two years since the onset of her TIAs, which we believe to have been vaccine-induced. Good Luck!
Its good karma that you have exercised on publishing this article.
In India my sister had to do a liver transplant 20 years ago, the liver cadaver was soaked in DMSO and thats how it was transported before the surgery, very funny that the FDA thinks it dangerous.
Please keep the good work going. The world need more people like you to tilt the balance towards the good forces.
Great article real heartfelt appreciation and gratitude.
When I worked in the commercial thoroughbred horse business DMSO (IV form) was used to treat conditions such as Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis, West Nile, and Laminitis. It was also used externally as an anti-inflammatory.
In appreciation of the time and effort spent on this article and for your dedication to educating the population at large, I became a paid subscriber today. Thank you so much!
Thank you for another ecxellent piece of work. Early in "covid" period I was in a zoom meeting with a physician who had experience using IV DMSO to treat cancer. I look forward to next episodes.
Didn't the mafia say pay me and stick to the rules or you'll be in trouble ? I am struggling to see how the current "healthcare system" is any different.
I have what is called EMF hypersensitivity. DMSO has been life changing and life saving for me. I discovered how much it helped after I had a painful injury from felling a large tree branch that glanced against my foot. I'd done enough research on DMSO to use it for pain and tissue healing of this injury. What I found out is that it kept my EMF hypersensitivity symptoms largely at bay. If I had not discovered this a couple of years ago, I do not believe I would still be alive. The symptoms were too unbearable and I was too tired of running from civilization to avoid them.
This is absolutely incredible. I am sharing this with all my patients who will listen. Thank you so so much. I can only imagine all the time and work this took. I am printing it out and many of the references as well.
I already bought some and have been using it on an injury and some nerve pain with good results. Next will be my hubby’s chronic neuropathy — I will report back on that after some time for whomever may want to troll through the comments.
You are amazing …. Thank you for all you do for us!! ❤️🙏🏻
Just an FYI: Geoff Pain has a substack in response to this article, for which his subtitle reads: "The anonymous "Midwestern Doctor" describes DMSO as creating "Miraculous Response" and "Remarkably Safe". I think this person should be unmasked."
He also states that, "A quick look at US FAERS reveals 21 Deaths, 151 Serious cases from a total of 214 reports for DMSO itself, a substance that I handled with extreme caution in the laboratory. The number of Deaths will be under-reported because there is folklore claiming its is safe and the fact that it is frequently used as a solvent for other drugs."
I've been following Geoff for a while now in spite of the fact that he's occasionally taken these sorts of potshots at people. This one is particularly egregious and cowardly however, as 1. he has no qualms about commenting on other peoples posts, so I don't know why he doesn't do so here to initiate a potentially illuminating dialogue, and 2. he put his article behind a paywall so people can't respond to get a public dialogue going there.
Regardless of what happens here, given the numerous deaths under "mysterious circumstances" of people who've stepped on the toes of pharma and mainstream medicine, this call to "unmask" you is vile and reprehensible.
1) I feel its a bit premature for him to write that before the rest of this series comes out as many of the points he's mentioning will be addressed.
2) I read through the FAERS reports in the process of writing all of this. He did not interpret or depict them correctly.
3) The fact that he used a sensationalistic headline and then paywalled the rest of the article suggests his motivation was to make money not empower people or have the crucial information that could "protect people from being killed by DMSO" be known.
4) People like that are a fact of life, but it's still sad they don't consider the harm they create by pushing people away from things that can really help people.
"Vile and reprehensible" are the operative words here, Dingo Roberts, and can usually describe anyone who thinks that accumulating money is the only thing that matters.
Sadly, the percentage of such people who hold prominent positions on the world stage is at an all-time high, and they currently run rampant in government, media, banking, warmongering, academia and, yes, medicine. Is there a Leader in the house?
Being generous to Pain, my guess is that whoever trained him had fallen the FDA's disinformation campaign about DMSO and drilled into him to never touch DMSO while working in it because it was super dangeous and Pain never thought to question why he was he was so scared of it in the lab.
Conversely I know other lab workers who started using DMSO because they saw it preserved cells at a very high concentration which they interpreted as a sign it couldn't be toxic (e.g., I recently learned one one of my relatives did this and then fixed their knee with DMSO)
As a young nurse in the 60s, I remember the talk about DMSO. I remember a lot of athletes were using it for injuries, and we were hearing warnings that it was dangerous. How sad that all these years later you reveal how much benefit it could have generated for so many. It breaks my heart to think of those who could have been saved or had better quality of life. Thank you, AMD.
I also subscribed because of the DMSO article. I used it once back in the early 1980s. I remember the garlic taste it instantly caused. So when I saw the article I read it with intrigue. I had no idea the FDA sabotaged it! I ordered some the same day I read the Substack. Used it on my right shoulder and upper back. Fantastic results! Pain free and doing pushups again for the first time in a year. Now I'm researching taking it orally.
Failure is most devastating when it occurs despite maximum resources being applied to solve a problem, as this means success only exists as a theoretical premise. To the contrary, when failure is the result of neglect or treachery, a call for unbound optimism is warranted, as the ingredients for success only need to be uncovered (unforgotten) and put into action. I believe the current state of medicine solidly exists in the latter scenario, and DMSO is a shining example.
My family is teeming with medical doctors and other healthcare practitioners, and it never ceases to amaze me how easily they spout orthodoxy… but your Substack has helped me make progress with some of them.
If you don’t mind me saying, I truly believe that your project with the AMD Substack and your ‘offline organizing/efforts’, is playing a tremendously outsized role in not only waking up the general public, but also waking up countless medical practitioners who desperately needed a “jolt” to their patient-care paradigm.
As for me, no words can ever express the gratitude I have for your magnanimous endeavor. You’ve equipped me with knowledge and perspectives that have allowed me to treat conditions of mine that have had >30 doctors stumped for many years.
Thanks MWD - and good to get them out before further censorship invasion. Wish i hadn't ditched my ancient bottle of DMSO (your bottle pic on the left) when i moved - (along with most stuff we owned). I don't think i ever used it - partly because of the MSM demonization of it, partly because i didn't know how and didn't really need it at the time.
Thank you so very much.! I am an MD who, prior to med school got a Masters in Social Work with emphasis on systems/family therapy. After med school I did a residency in Family Practice hoping to help people in a holistic way. It wasn't until I bumped into someone who had a good understanding of Homeopathy and I studied Hahnemann's holistic art that I began to hit my stride. More and more of my efforts to help people were focused on stimulating their own healing capacities through homeopathy and, also, through education about toxins in "medicines", "vaccines", food and the environment. It is wonderful to read your posts! It is obvious that you have done a tremendous amount of work. Blessings!!
DMSO is similar to gypsum in Chinese Medicine. Gypsum is CaSO4 and sulfate is a strong kosmotrope on the Hofmeister series. It organizes and stabilizes structural water so that communication will be restored (Qi flows) and lysosomes stabilized, inflammation goes down. Gypsum gets absorbed less efficiently, DMSO probably better.
This is wild. My stepfather used to swear by DMSO for a variety of ailments, he had bottles of it around the house. By modern terms, he would be described as a redneck, no college, unclear to me if he finished high school. I thought he was kind of wacky. He drank heavy, smoked heavy, cooked in Crisco and bacon fat, prepared an amazing sausage, milk, and bacon fat gravy and fried chicken, loved to shoot his guns. He died of pneumonia, never had heart disease or any of that. Guess he was on to something. RIP.
Thank you for your timely article. I have been taking DMSO + MMS (chlorine dioxide) for some time for ulcerative colitis + cardiac ectasia and now am convinced I'm on the right track.
Wow, wow, wow!!! This is an INCREDIBLE article. I haven't fully digested all of it yet, but there is so much good and useful information here for us all. Many many thanks!!
I have a question in the oral dosing section. You say "When an adult takes DMSO, start out at a low dose of about 3.5g in a glass of water, observe the effects, and then gradually raise it by 3.5g a day until you find the appropriate dose. This rate can be raised to 7ml, but you want to be mindful not to hit a concentration that irritates the mouth or throat (which normally requires diluting it into multiple drinks once you’re taking over 10g a day.
True, but it’s easier to measure a liquid by volume (mL, typically in a syringe for small amounts) rather than weighing a volume of liquid on a gram scale.
For water, milliliters (mL) = grams (g). This changes for liquids of different densities For example, 1 mL of honey weighs 1.4 g. DMSO is about 10% denser than water, so 1 mL = 1.1 g, but that’s close enough to being equal for home use. Other common U.S. measurements:
A teaspoon is roughly 5 milliliters (mL) = 5 grams (g).
A tablespoon is roughly 15 mL = 15 g = 1/2 fluid ounce.
Uh oh. I tried using the calculator to convert 3.5 grams to oz.s I started taking 1/2 teaspoon in my coffee. Is that a good dose to try and help the optic nerve and other circulatory issues?
How about when mixed with fenben. Do you have advise on how to safely use with nutraceuticals, like ivermectin or fenben? I assume only a teaspoon or less could be used
Wow. I’ve been searching for over an hour for clarity on this.. most other notations have been regarding 1 t. (teaspoon) As a place to start. Then after 3 days, can increase to 3 t.
but suggests spacing each 1t. out over the day.
The Grams thing totally got me so confused and my well meaning friends just says “ he’s told you what the amounts are .”
I’ve been searching feverishly how to take 3.5 grams. And what it was…
With so many issues going & I’m at day 35 now of 1t a day, I need to go to 1 t twice a day.
Also confusing: well meaning friend says empty stomach and I see Midwestern Doc seems to say after a meal.. that would make things so much easier for the other doses.
Sorry so long winded but I am 138# female and well meaning friend wanted me to start out like gang busters cause of so many issues… spinal stenosis, degenerative everything nearly entire spine, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis…. Just want to do what I can while I can. The stenosis is starting to affect clear cognitive thinking…sadly
In addition, the scoliosis and osteoporosis has my darn ribs inside my pelvis…. I could’ve done without that one for sure. I can still stand up pretty straight. 75 years old and intent on going to grandkids vball games…
Thank you Mr MW Dr. for your information…My oldest son forwarded Dr Pierre Kerry’s note on you off of X about 5-6 weeks ago..
This is so timely for me. My husband is battling bladder cancer and using intravesical DMSO, we hope you will have more information on bladder cancer application with this remarkable remedy!
Hi, Sending love to you and your husband. I healed my cancer using the Incurables Program from Dr. Richard Schulze. He used to have hundreds of videos and testimonials and how to do things, but the FDA forced him to remove it all during Covid. Anyway, his program worked for me. I hope it can help your husband in addition to the DMSO. With all good wishes, Carol
Not that I know of. I purchased some videos and accompanying book off ebay by Sam Biser. Biser interviewed him in the 90s and I had the VHS tapes converted to disk and thumb drive. It's amazing, life saving information. Message me if you can't afford to buy them and I'll copy a thumb drive and send it to you. It's hard work, but beats the heck out of standard medicine, which really has nothing for disease. Grateful to the ER docs and open minded ones like MWD. Cheers!
Topically, not getting much relief from 1%, 30% or 70%.
Internally, taking 1 tsp with juice in the morning actually offers immediate pain relief. Surprises the heck out of me - so effective, I'm worried about *needing* it, like an addiction.
This plant medicine and I have a lot to learn about each other!
Seriously, thank you for this! Reading this article (and your article on UVBI), felt like finding a lost dusty tome of desperately needed wisdom in the back corner of a library hardly anyone ever visits.
I bought the book “Healing with DSMO”. It explicitly states one should stop alcohol use while using DSMO which can take up one week to clear the body through the skin.
I used “medical” marijuana for a few years. I dislike smoking or vaping, which left only the concentrates as an option. These typically are in “pure” form, requiring some type of solvent or come in an alcohol solution. I disliked the latter option, as I’m a reformed alcoholic*. Although I’d never used it before, I vaguely knew what DMSO was, so I ordered a bottle. I made solutions at various concentrations from the cannabis oils.
As Doc says, DMSO is not suitable for all plastics. You can find lists that say which are suitable (and verify using recycle code). I also used a test similar to Doc's, except I put a small amount in a bottle to test, let it stand many hours, then put a few drops on clean glass and let dry. Any residue? Out went that plastic container.
DMSO, unlike most solvents, gives the option for a transdermal product. Technically it works, but concerns over suitability of materials and proper dosing made me quickly abandon this method.
I settled on the convenience of a homemade solution of resin in DMSO mixed at a known strength. This allowed dosing via dropper. Even so, dosing was sometimes still an issue. THC is relatively safe (low toxicity) but overdose is not fun, especially if one’s desired dose is at the low end rather than the Twilight Anxiety Zone.
Thanks as always to Dr. Midwest for in-depth reporting. I still experiment with DMSO for minor uses like for cuts and applying Vitamin C to a birth mark. While I’m blessed with good health in my early 60s, I would try DMSO if I developed various health issues that it might address.
*Apparently I’m not so paranoid that I refuse (say) food flavorings that often contain alcohol, although some strict revered alcoholics say to avoid them. Nor has the fruit juice that’s been opened in my fridge, potentially with a trace of fermentation, caused me to go back to the liquor store.
I never had concentrates with alcohol! Always MCT or even olive oil - oil based concentrates.
I've started adding 0.5% DMSO to my cannabis oils, and it seems to potentiate them. I can use less. (I hear you on the vaping, what do they think we are, children?)
You mention MSM only twice in this article. We've been using MSM for years in my practice with great results. Would you comment on why DMSO might be superior to MSM? My review of your article and the chemistry of these two atoms has always led me to use MSM in my practice rather than DMSO. I would love a follow up article on this.
I find it very interesting that DMSO may have effect on the esophagus, eg esophageal stricture formation, including on on stricture formation in corrosive esophageal burns. I am diagnosed with Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) and had to be operated on twice because pieces of food got stuck, and I couldn't swallow. But in 2018 I started using MSM - together with vitamin C- because I heard it could reduce symptoms of pollen allergies. It worked, and after a few months I noticed that my problems with EoE was reduced as well. And it has worked now for six years; I don't need any meds for pollen allergies nor EoE. And if ever any pieces of food get stuck in my throat, I mix a spoon (or more) of MSM with a little bit of water, and try to swallow. Sofar it ha always released whatever food that got stuck. But now I got another tool in my toolbox:; DMSO. It is probably even more effective at reducing the swelling in the esophagus. I will definitely try it next time.
Now I have tried DMSO for my occasional problem with EoE, that is food getting stuck in my esophagus. It worked perfectly. Usually a high dose MSM in a bit of water releases whatever got stucks, but it wasn't so easy this time. DMSO however worked right away. This should be known to EoE patients and doctors.
I found this in the book The Miracle of MSM, by Stanley W. Jacob md (the doctor who pioneered DMSO research):
"Patients often develop severe scarring of the esophagus. They cannot swallow properly. Solid food sticks in the esophagus. They often lose their appetite. They lose weight and suffer from a lack of energy. Sometimes you have to
metal tubes are surgically inserted to gradually widen the esophagus so patients can swallow. A overproduction of stomach acid can creep up into the esophagus and exacerbate the destructive process of the disease. In Cindy Honaker's case, her gastroenterologist said her esophagus was “almost solid
like a lead pipe." It had the diameter of a pencil. In a time before effective acid blockers medicine, the acid had corroded away the valve in the lower part that opens to the stomach. For eleven years she underwent esophageal dilatations. She weighed 37 kilos as a result of not being able to eat normally.
Many years ago I treated this condition with DMSO and had excellent results. Then, when I started using MSM, I found the results were even better. Because of the smell that is associated with DMSO, people often do not continue taking it long term. MSM has no smell. Patients are therefore more likely to continue using it. We know that many of the benefits of DMSO are due to MSM action. MSM performs comprehensively repair work in the body. It increases the blood supply, which helps the healing process, and that acts as an analgesic and anti-inflammatory agent. In addition, MSM softens scar tissue. In the esophagus, this effect results in an increase in the functional diameter of the esophagus." (from the Swedish translation)
My 14 year old dog has tracheal collapse, not uncommon in smaller breeds. I wonder if applying gel to her throat area would help. I use some supplements that seem to help but she still suffers. Or orally?
Regarding tracheal collapse, I read that the inflammation is part of the cause and "enzymes involved in inflammation further soften the tracheal cartilage, making the collapse worse."
My guess is that DMSO, if you manage to apply it, might at least slow down the progression of the disease, since it is antiinflammatory. If you're lucky it might reverse it to some extent.
Why not combining MSM powder in the food of the dog and DMSO on the throat? Trying won't harm your dog, and is much cheaper than visiting the Vet.
I had been doing pretty well with her using glandular (bone & marrow), honey, slippery elm. And she was getting better. Then last couple of days, she’s gotten worse. Then I realized I had also been giving her liposomal Vit c, 2x/day. So I started back today. Really good stuff, but pricey. But that’s ok. We’ll see. I ordered dmso as well.
MSM is most often used orally, dissolved in water for example. It can be combined with vitamin C, since there is supposed to be a synergy between the two.
I also want to commend you on how you allow many unpaid readers to read a majority of your paid articles. Many substack authors allow very little of the publication to be viewed on paid posts.
This important to send to the nonbelievers (LOL)… that I know.
I only paywall the things that can cause issues if I make them publicly available. My main goal is to get the information out there. That's also why I'm a lot more selective on what topics I cover (as I have limited time to write so I want to focus on what makes the biggest impact).
Thank you for revealing yet another suppressed medical treatment. Are you familiar with the use of nebulized hydrogen peroxide? I have been using it at the first sign of infection, it kills it dead very quickly. I have yet to uncover any studies, only a few doctors recomendations. This includes the book by Thomas E Levy called Rapid Virus Recovery.
I use it the same way, however 3% is overkill and can irritate the nasal passages and throat. Dr Brownstein recommends 0.15% (from memory). I keep a 500ml batch made up I keep in the fridge that is 0.3% (9 parts IV saline, 1 part 3% food grade Hydrogen Peroxide). It has a half life of about 6 months at room temperature.
Thank you for all of your work on this. I now know 8 people who have had a stroke following their transfections. 2 died. I hope everybody reading this will pay it forward to their friends. Many lives will be saved.
I recently cut the tip of my finger off and the nail while cooking. As soon as it had healed over in a couple of days, I started putting 50% DMSO / 50% aloe vera on it. The tip of that finger was almost completely healed in about 10 days.
Also, my husband is 4 months post double lung transplant. He has a blood clot where they had put in a pic line. His right bronchi did not heal well and there is ischemic tissue. I believe once he out of the hospital I will start putting DMSO on those 2 areas to see if they will resolve faster. The DMSO I have, I bought at a feed store (in the horse section). 4 ounce gel in a plastic tub at 90% .
After covid we already know that the FDA is partnered with the devil himself, but to find out the horrific damage they did way back in the 1960's/1970's begs the question: Has the FDA EVER worked for the people, or have they ALWAYS been a marketing arm for Pharma and worse? What was their motivation for going after DMSO? Who was paying them? Obvious answers are Money and Pharma. It's hard to believe that there's this kind of evil in the world. and it's all right there in the 3 letter agencies in the capital of the empire!
The original founder of FDA really wanted to help the people, but then he got muscled out by industry and wrote a book about it. At some point I am going to write an article on that.
They can just write a note in the chart for legal protection. You may need lawyers for back up. Get consent from a relative or the patient. Get everything signed. And if the medical college or admin makes a fuss call up the journalists at the city newspaper or even the Tv station. We had a guy who saved an entire hospital in Montreal by using the media. They tried to break him but he won in the end and the citizens think he is a hero. I used to give second opinion consults to patients in rthe preop clinic when I saw them scheduled for big surgery with a bad surgeon. When the patient is on board they can't touch you, because the jerks have things to hide.
IKR? I so want to tell my GP that I'm doing this. She has an open mind, but - still - terrifying.
And here - anything you report can bounce back on you. But - how many more people could be helped? Nearly everyone in my circles could benefit from this!
Wow I'm so glad I was able to read this, and while DMSO is obviously an amazing substance and should be known about and studied by countless doctors and scientists the fact that it took me this long to hear about it is infuriating! I'll be taking my time to share this article with everyone I know and even posting it on X to RFK Jr and such to try to get it the attention it deserves.
Thank you so much for writing this! Any further articles on DMSO please share w/me as I'm new to this platform and don't yet know the best way to search/find such articles
I'm 76. Sole care-giver to wife who died from colon cancer about 5 years ago. I never had high blood pressure problems until undergoing the stress of her final 6 months. My primary care doc said the stress of her care contributed to my increase for which I take 25mg of Losartin daily. I wonder if DMSO would lower it back to normal? Thank you for all of your great articles. I'm really enjoying this series.
Thank you so much! I had a stroke 2 months ago; I was working in the garden and it felt like someone stabbed me in the head with a thin piece of wire. I walked up to the house and got into bed. I never get headaches; it was so painful. I stayed in bed a week; just getting up to drink water and pee and sleeping most of the time. When I finally figured out what had happened, I went to juice fasting and American Botanical Pharmacy's Brain Formula. Dr. Richard Schulze was a practicing Naturopath and Herbalist who was harassed and arrested in the 90s, not because he did anything wrong, but because he was curing the incurables. Anyway, I had done his whole Incurables Program for breast cancer, which my mother died of. It is a tough detox and juice fasting program with cold sheet treatments, colonics, etc. His program did heal people with some very bad cases of stroke, but I just am kind of depressed at the thought of doing that whole program again. I found someone in my area that does DMSO IVs. Do you think this would help with someone 2 months post stroke; or would just taking it orally work, too? I'm not a very "medical" person. My kids were born at home with a midwife and I was truly disgusted with my mother's experience with surgery and chemo, hence, why I chose Dr. Schulze's program to heal my cancer. My main problem is short term memory loss and mostly being very depressed about the whole situation. Thank you for your writing! I finally joined as a paid subscriber, too. ♥♥♥
Carol, I’ve read others taking about using DMSO in enemas but I haven’t found a recipe. I’ve been taking a teaspoon of DMSO diluted in water and haven’t felt any negative issues so I don’t think I’d have an issuing with an enema if using the correct dosage. My main concern is finding an enema kit that will have DMSO compatible plastic, especially the tubing. Maybe need tubing that IV DMSO use?
My functional medicine doctor recommended DMSO 50% to her patients for Covid and flu prevention. Her instructions were to swab nasal passages twice a day. I had never heard of DMSO until then. It is amazing that DMSO can do so much. If only...my mother had a brain stem stroke 10 years ago. My brother-in-law has frontal lobe brain injury from a fall about 7 years ago. Both of them might have been helped in significant ways if DMSO had been available as a treatment option. Both struggle with normal daily living - needing constant help and attention. It makes me angry that FDA has abandoned its role of helping and protecting patients. Money is the root of this evil. Thank you, Thank you for all you do to bring truth and light to these issues.
DMSO just cured the poison ivy on my forearms in 48 hours. I’m highly allergic to poison ivy, usually battling cases for a couple of weeks. Experimenting with DMSO topical cream on my face and arms, I accidentally discovered the curing of my poison ivy.
I found another patch on my right ankle and applied DMSO this morning. At the writing of this comment, it is already dry and does not itch!!! This evening I noticed a third patch on my left ankle, which I will treat in the morning.
Wow, wow, wow.
Having recently moved back to the family farm in the Ozarks, we are currently living with my mother in law (79) in my husband’s childhood farmhouse. I am now armed with DMSO and am treating her arthritis daily with topical DMSO. We are ready if she ever has a stroke.
Already it’s helping my own arthritis in my fingers. And outing it on my face every morning is incredible. My skin feels great.
I'm a brand new subscriber, and appreciate your dedication. I'll be applying DMSO to my wife's knee 6 months post patellar dislocation injury, two surgeries and one MUA; constant pain, and range of motion only 80 degrees. Also will try it on two of our adopted boys who received TBI's many years ago from their bio-dad, resulting in learning disabilities.
Thank you so much for this article! I copied and pasted the dosing and the link into a note so I can always refer back to it.
I purchased some of the DMSO in liquid form and gel form. Both are a 70/30 mix with water.
The liquid came in a brown, glass bottle with a glass dropper, encased in a hard cardboard tube. The tube states to store the DMSO in it.
The gel came in a plastic tub, so I transferred it to a glass jar with a metal lid. I store it in a cabinet, so it’s not exposed to light.
I have been dosing myself, and my elderly dog, with two droppers full (one dropper is 10 drops) of the liquid DMSO for a few days now, in the morning.
I have also been rubbing the DMSO gel on my hands a couple times a day. I’ve rubbed it on my knee once or twice. I have arthritis in other parts of my body as well, but I don’t wish to cover myself head-to-toe with DMSO.
Both me and my dog have been sleeping better because we’re not in pain from arthritis. My hips don’t wake me at night, prompting me to turn over. My knees aren’t upset because one of my dogs prefers to sleep with his head on them. My husband is happy because he sleeps better when we spoon.
My hands haven’t been hurting at all, and I have full mobility to be the keyboard warrior my employer pays me to be.
I was thinking this may be the placebo effect, but since I was not expecting to sleep so soundly, without moving all night, two nights in a row, I’ve ruled that out.
Thank you for putting together these articles for us. You are a blessing! A million thank you’s!
Thank you for letting me know. I have to say, it’s the weirdest thing, the “elderly nubs” on my knuckles are shrinking. I am so stunned. It is absolutely mind boggling that they’re not hurting like they used to *and* they’re shrinking. I don’t even know what to say about.
I have been texting links to your articles to everyone I know. I know so many people who would benefit from using DMSO if they just started using it.
Thank you again! You are in my prayers. God bless you!
Some more recent papers (animal models and in vitro) suggest that some caution is warranted, but I did not check whether the dosages used were, as is often the case, much higher than those used by actual human patients:
Thank you very much for your illuminating articles.
I was very interested in your DMSO pubblication because it seemed it could be of help for my wife who is suffering since several years from a peripheral neuropathy that affects her balance and coordination standing and walking. I was considering the skin application from her feet and looking for companies that export dmso to Italy, but was a bit allarmed by some studies on the effects on periferal nerves (they mention blocking conduction in the smaller peripheral nerve fibers) and the report of a case of a neuropathy somehow linked to dmso application. I see it as anecdotal but it still made me wait and try to understand more...
If I was in charge of giving out Nobel Prizes, I would definitely have you as the first person to get one. It is truly remarkable that so many therapies have been hidden away just because of greed. What I really love about your approach is that you BACK up everything with LINKS to the studies. It really makes a difference whenever I try to introduce someone to your Substack. Anecdotal evidence is what people are used to when they hear about a different therapy and we have those plus studies and facts. I turned my doctor onto this substack and I hope she opens her mind to the many things we are not told by mainstream anything. Interesting note anecdote means to witness something....seems good enough for a court of law but not in the scientific sense.
That is the very reason that people trust what you write...it's backed up by data that even the most skeptical person can't refute. Keep up the great work and I look forward to the remaining parts of the DMSO articles. Hopefully they don't take too long to get published. I have a relative that just got diagnosed with ALS in Europe and he is only in his late 40's. He was on statins and he has really regressed since he found out about the disease. I will mention to them to search to see if they can get any IV DMSO in Europe to give it a try....nothing to lose. Again, thank you so much for the effort you put into this substack.
Wow what a treat! I was introduced to DMSO when my 17 year old son presented Crohn's disease with an abscess at his terminal illium. I found the website "Listen to Your Gut" and she had a DMSO protocol we used to completely dissolve the abscess. He did not take it internally but used a 50 - 70% concentration with castor oil and heat on the area every day for 6 or 8 weeks. I use it topically with liquid magnesium to help with sore muscles and joints.
We don't use much at a time so to make a 70% solution just do 7 drops of DMSO and 3 drops of distilled water. Some people have sensitive skin and 70% can burn or irritate. My son used the protocol at the above website and applied it once a day per the instructions. If I remember right he "painted" it on (use clean fingers or a natural bristled brush), then after it dried, put on the castor oil, and then used a protected heating pad for 30 minutes. DMSO will transport anything through your skin so you don't want it to contact plastic or any other harmful chemical. I'm sure this substack will cover everything.
Thank you so very much for this article. As a person who has read many medical studies for the last several decades, (in an effort to mitigate disease progression) I relish all the information you present in your articles as they are far more helpful, easy to parse with astoundingly practical information. Would that all in the medical field were so thorough and seemingly caring about our actual health. You make me wish I lived in the midwest so as to find a doctor who actually understood what many once believed health care should entail. Thank you for all your time, I pray you know how very grateful I am(and I am certain so many others).
Thank you so much for your invaluable research! I have nephew with cerebral palsy. I wonder if he may benefit from DMSO treatment. I may try an oral approach with the Merimex formula.
After reading this I got a tub of 70/30 gel and applied it to my sons feet three times per day. He was riding his skateboard barefoot and crunched his toes under his feet. No broken bones.
Within three days he said he felt no pain or discomfort at all. For the sort of injury it was it seemed like the sort of thing which would take weeks to stop hurting and for all discomfort to end for a sixteen year old!
The more I kept reading the more upset I got at the "powers that be" at the FDA, and the state of the medical field in general. It seems that there is now a lost art of the practice of medicine and healing and we have morphed into a group beholden to the pharmaceutical companies. Also, as I kept reading, I kept thinking of the possibilities for using this in the eye. (I'm an optometrist) We've always been told that there is no treatment for central retinal artery occlusion, but now I'm wondering if this could work, along with so many other ocular conditions. (BRVO,BRAO, DBR, AMD and the list goes on)!
Thank you so much for the hundreds of hours you must pour into all your careful research and writings. Since COVID, the scales have fallen from my eyes and in reading your articles I continue to expand my knowledge. Thank you again, you are truly a blessing!
Veterinary medicine widely uses DMSO. I had a downed draft horse (stuck down - no illness) that we only got up on her feet with the help of the fire department, and vet said he didn’t know if she would make it but gave her injections of DMSO, and we put some in her feed for several days. She had that garlic smell but she survived. It really was miraculous.
Thank you! Looking forward to the rest of your series. With regards to allergies or intolerances to dmso I have read somewhere that most cases are a deficiency in molybdenum. While I don't understand the chemistry, it stands to reason since dmso is catalysed by molybdenum and maybe tungsten. Given how amazing dmso is, molybdenum supplementation would be worth a try for those who can't seem to tolerate dmso.
I am wondering the same thing! I can't take Sam-e or MSM because I get a rash or become nauseated. Years ago when I was put on a sulfa antibiotic, I threw up so much they had to prescribe prednisone to stop the reaction. I really want to try DMSO, however I don't know enough about chemistry to know if I will react. I also read about Molybdenum and am taking 25mcg in a Core Minerals supplement that Dr. Collin of the Townsend Letter prescribed (before he retired, sadly). Not sure if that is high enough. Regardless, I need to try dmso for a neck injury that is getting worse as I age. Does anyone have an opinion if DMSO is different enough from MSM biochemically? And when I do a trial, what would be a reasonable dosage and method?
I too am severely allergic to sulfa antibiotics, however I use DMSO topically with no reactions whatsoever. I haven't tried taking internally yet, but I may after reading some more articles on it.
Thank you so much for all of your priceless writings. They are invaluable. You are one of my very favorite Substack writers.
Do you think that DMSO would work for
Primary progressive aphasia? My previously super healthy girlfriend started developing this a few years ago. She has deteriorated a lot, so it may even be too late. I will continue to listen to your Substack columns on this subject. If you can’t answer my specific question, thank you anyway.
It might, too hard to say without knowing the person (but there were cases of stroke victims having aphasia improve after DMSO). If it's a vaccine injury, she may also want to do one of the protocols.
Out of 5 grown children, 4 have either severe OCD, anxiety, schizophrenia and now marijuana addiction- if DMSO can help even one of them a little I’ll be eternally grateful.
It's bizarre, but I swear ingesting DMSO is helping me with cravings / addiction. I can't tell you how or why, it's just like - when I have that in my system - the thought of those awful things (mostly foods) I crave = turns me off.
Have you knowledge of any success with using DMSO to relieve adhesive arachnoiditis of the lower spine (unfortunately getting worse) from a botched birth / labor epidural? A young mother could have her life saved, if so.
I could see it working, especially if it was injected correctly, but I don't know of any examples where that was tried. I vaguely remembering hearing of someone fixing this with a skilled bodyworker who could separate the two layers again but I'm not sure how you'd go about finding someone to do it.
My 26 year old son had bone cancer at age 17. Distal femur. Chemo and surgery, titanium prosthetic knee. Quite successful surgery, good range of motion afterwards. But over the years, his range of motion has lessened to where can barely bend his knee. I suspect adhesions but could be inflammation as he has put on weight. Would DMSO offer any benefit?
I so appreciate this article as I deal with chronic pain. I purchased the 70 % DMSO liquid and also the gel from Jacob Lab to try. But on both bottles it says not to take internally and also that no medical applications to the body are advised. I'm guessing it's because it's not FDA approved but I'm fine with that. Could you comment?
What could be the potential mechanism(s) of such broad benefits?
The ability to penetrate cell membranes makes me wonder whether DMSO (simplistically) functions as an improved small building block of cell membranes, improving their basic functions that have been damaged perhaps by PUFAs, poor nutrition, or other modern problems.
Given the effect on down syndrome, it should help with ASD as well. I'm going to give it a go with my youngest. Other things can help too, like Quercetin, B vitamins, and Red/infrared light.
Yes! My grandson has autism and I was wondering the same thing It breaks my heart to see him graduated from school, holed up in his room without social life & unable to find a job.
Mine too. Freshman at a large university this fall. Yes, he has some struggles. His personality makes it hard to make friends. He’s also trans (sadly) but hasn’t reached out yet to the support groups there. I hope he does. He is very talented in 2 fields. I worry about him all the time.
Yes. But he is 18 and there will be no interest in doing anything. I have no sway in this at all. My daughter ignores my health information, and since they are all adults there I guess they are on their own. I don’t like it but it is what it is at this point.
Thank you! I'm too tired to read all of this right now. (and you have 3 more sections?? Gonna need a summarized version! But I will read it all.) Was up late last night reading about Chlorine Dioxide (made from sodium chlorite and an acid activator - citric acid, lemon juice, vinegar, etc). NASA seemed to sing high praises for it, but the FDA ran an "anti-bleach" campaign against it. It's used in water purification (and actually replaced bleach in that function!), and also used (in stronger concentrations) for sanitizing surfaces. You're diluting each component and only administering it in drops, with a ratio of 1:5 (dissolved sodium chlorite to 10% solution of citric acid) and waiting 3 or so minutes before adding more water and ingesting.
I was wondering if you're covering this at some point.
My friend has been experimenting with putting DMSO on the meridians in the hopes that it travels through them to the areas they feed. We also have the idea that shining the red light therapy on it right after application might help - the hypothesis is that if DMSO can contain the radiant energy of light like water does, maybe it'll carry it through the skin and solve the issue of light energy having trouble getting through the skin barrier.
Thank you! I used DMSO topically on my arm when I had tendonitis and it totally went away. I have a question. I have hemifacial spasms on the left side of my face that started with eye twitching a few years ago. Now that side of my face spasms randomly and effects my mouth and cheek. I'm trying botox but sometimes look like I had a stroke. Most people with this condition opt for MVD (microvascular decompression which I don't want. I wonder if DMSO would help as this usually involves a vessel being compressed. My MRI was clear but not read by a neurosurgeon who is the only one to see the compressions.
No I didn’t have covid before that started. It started before covid. I did not take any vacs. There are a lot of (mostly women who have this). All, myself included have tried acupuncture, different vitamins and other alternative treatments to no avail. But I’m still looking.
Just saw your comment - they no longer come into my inbox most of the time. Another thought - it is possible that wireless radiation - esp close-range like a cellphone, laptop or wifi could cause this - it is well known to cause many neurological symptoms and diseases (if interested, check out Arthur Firstenberg's well-researched info).
Jim Humble in his book on CDS, "MMS Health Recovery Guidebook" uses DMSO in most of his protocols. The simplest is 3 drops of activated MMS (CDS) with 9 drops of DMSO. 1 ml is approximately 20 drops. I recommend you get this book if you intend to use chlorine dioxide.
Thank you for all the hard work! I have been familiar with DMSO since 1981 because I have Interstitial Cystitis. I have had many bladder instillations that could have worked better if I could have “held” it in longer. I read a great book back then (Can’t remember the name) and DMSO did indeed seem a miracle product. Not surprising that it was banned except for IC. NO ONE wanted to be around me because of the garlic smell. Looking forward to more of your research.
My husband has just been diagnosed with bladder cancer. I’m trying to find different treatments. What is intravesical. The dictionary meaning just described it basically as a hollow organ container. How is the DMSO used in your husbands case?
The DMSO is combined with sterile saline and installed into the bladder via catheter. Highly recommend finding a naturopathic or integrative/functional medicine doctor for guidance. Prayers for you and your husband, we have been on this journey almost 4 years now, it can be exhausting, but certainly helps you to have gain perspective!
Hi. I am not familiar with the term inteavesical. Is that the same as an instillation?
Gosh I would think DMSO would be ver helpful.
I was surprised to see DMSO in a gel form and as a solvent at my healthfood store. Will be buying some soon.
So… the urologist so r do DMSO for your husband. My things have changed!
I haven’t seen a Dr about this IC I have for 25 years. I have learned through good discipline and nutrients to stay away and I almost had my bladder removed at one time when I was 35 yrs.
Hello Darlene, yes intravesical is an instillation via catheter. Slightly diluted with sterile saline. DMSO is approved for use for treatment of interstitial cystitis, it has a calming effect. We are trying to preserve his bladder with diet, supplementaion, lifestyle, off label drugs, etc. They never, just take the bladder, they take the lower lymph nodes, prostrate and portions of large and small intestines - if you follow standard of care. We know that 70-80% of our immune system resides in our gut, this practice makes no sense to us, and when we pray the Lord tells us that body mutilation is not of Him! We are trusting the Lord to show us the way that He will provide healing.
That is interesting as back in 80s my urologist used DMSO and silver nitrates ( which didn’t help) for his patients. At that time it was the only thing DMSO WAS APPROVED FOR. Wonder if you could do it yourself?
Major sports loved it for injuries but it was forbidden. Such a shame. I am sorry your husband has this to deal with. You are doing the best and believing God will heal him. Blessings
Yes, it does leave a strong garlic odor. I have used it in horses for various ailments that affect their central nervous system and one can smell it as soon as they enter the barn!
Thank you for the excellent article. I've understood the corruption of modern medicine for a long time now but when I learn about interventions like this that could have saved countless lives and reduced healing time, it still really rubs me the wrong way. I've already shared this with people that I know it will help and will continue sharing it.
The ultimate rebellion is personal excellence. Get yourself healthy and successful and help other people do the same to break reliance on these criminals.
I’ve already commented once but I wanted to ask if this is something that might help resolve neuropathy in my feet as a result of a shingles vaccine injury that caused peripheral Guillame-Barre. I appreciate all the work you do and this has been an eye opener.
I look forward to more of your series! I hope you identify flaws in at least a few studies that raise specific concerns about DMSO, e.g. deregulation of methylation:
Verheijen, M., Lienhard, M., Schrooders, Y. et al. DMSO induces drastic changes in human cellular processes and epigenetic landscape in vitro. Sci Rep 9, 4641 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-40660-0
MWD….. With the Medical Ind Complex lowering numbers with blood pressure and cholesterol (for what is healthy) I am wondering about the “numbers” being used to define pre-diabeties and diabeties. Seems like they want to put ppl on meds earlier in this area also. Any QUICK thoughts?
Agree with you completely, on the part about ever-lowering metrics that arbitrarily define when one has a “condition” requiring “treatment.” Just the same, don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. Medicine isn’t all about greed and useless products or services; they actually do offer some valuable stuff. Ideally one needs to separate the wheat from the chaff. Case in point:
The following is heavily informed from Taubes books:
I’ve seen the criticism, possibly valid from people like you who suspect that “pre-diabetes” is a new diagnosis from the ever profit-seeking medical-industrial complex. Their endless quest for reasons to peddle more treatments and sell patients expensive drugs is certainly worthily of suspicion, but hold on a second.
If Taubes is correct in his several books, metabolic syndrome is a serious chronic health condition affecting many people (indeed, perhaps a majority of the population!). It’s associated with numerous health problems, the most common being obesity, [pre-]diabetes, high blood pressure and many more. Where Taubes and most doctors would part company, of course, is in the opinion of what the proper treatment would be. The MIC would prefer the patient attempt a useless diet, and when that fails, go on a bunch of Rx drugs, perhaps for life. They’d certainly disapprove of what Taubes would recommend, which would be some version of a keto diet absent in refined carbs and especially sugar. The MIC wouldn’t like that because such a diet is “high fat” and as we all know, fat is a main cause of heart disease and sugar has been exonerated repeatedly by the FDA and USDA as a potential health risk. The MIC as usual is very late to the party; the potential issues had been known for decades but metabolic syndrome is recognized as a valid issue but (so far as I know) still not a mainstream diagnosis. Thus, "pre-diabetes" is indeed a potentially serious condition but opinions differ on how best to address it.
I am so excited to have come across this. This is all so new to me and my non-medical mind. I am reading and re-reading and learning so much.
My sister is labeled under the autism spectrum. Her disability results from childhood immunization in the 1970s before autism was even a label. Can her brain be unlocked? I think it can. The Zeta Potential? Protein mis-folding? DMSO? Wondering about soaking her feet in DMSO? Would adding magnesium flakes be good with DMSO? We are doing Perry Nicolston's six point lymph drainage technique. I am holding on to hope.
Yes, the brain can heal itself if the toxins are removed (drained) and the body/brain are given the right conditions (proper animal based nutrition and plenty of sunlight). Keep at it.
Brett Favre testified before the Ways and Means Committee and said that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's. You can probably get to him. It would be good to see if DMSO could help him in his journey and because of his fame, if helpful, could be a huge plus for DMSO.
Wednesday evening after reading this article I tried drinking about an ounce of DMSO with water at 50:50 and had to add more water until I could stomach it. The result was I haven't slept in the same room with my wife since! I spent 30 minutes in our pool last night hoping the chloring might dissipate the smell that appears to be emanating from my body (I can't smell it). This morning (Friday) she said it wasn't as bad. I don't know if it's just wearing off or if the chlorine had any effect.
Hence why that's DMSO's notorious side effect. It poses no risk to your health though and people who really needed DMSO would time when they took it so that didn't mess up their social life or marriage.
Could diet make a difference? Could some people smell worse due to the release of toxins? Also, women tend to have a more heightened sense of smell, could it be that too?
As an LPN, soon to be RN, that wants to promote real health instead of passing pills, I read everything you write avidly. I work in a rehab hospital- Mary Free Bed. After reading this, I realize how much it can help many patients I care for. I'm interested in the story of how the FDA shut it down and is there anything I can do to promote this?
Arthritis started for me around age 25. I have since had 5 surgeries (back, hip x 2, feet x 2) for those problems. I first heard of DMSO my last year of dental school ~ 1978-79, but was unable to get it because of practitioner fears.
I had forgotten about it until this article. This is all great news and I am looking forward to the rest of the story!
I hope DMSO will work for tinnitus & systemic joint pain due to osteoarthritis. With progressing pain in many joints I am guessing that oral ingestion would work best.
Thank you for all of this information, it is greatly appreciated.
Dr. Doctor, you are a treasure. I'm trying to help my husband live. He's only recently been willing to give alternative medicine any thought, mostly because he's now been told he has 4-12 months to live. He has an aortic aneurism. He is too frail to survive surgery. He has CKD stage 3b and liver cirrhosis. He has hepatorenal syndrome and hepatic encephalopathy. Believe it or not, I could go on. He also has a history of taking 4000 mg Tylenol daily plus omeprazole and taking steroid injections for his multiple orthopedic problems which in turn turned his bones very brittle... I think at least half of this is due to his involvement with corporate medicine and bad OTC meds. I don't know where to begin. Could you point me in a good direction to start? (After reading every word you write?)
Thank you so much for all you do. Mind blowing post - both for its information and the revelation of this life-saving drug's suppression. On that note, I was confused why I wasn't getting any posts from my favorite Substack authors or naturopathic providers. Turns out they had all been relegated to the email junk file on my iCloud account - which is where I found this post. Hmmm... I've since added everyone to my contact list to see if it resolves the issue.
DMSO and eczema. My adult daughter is suffering from extreme eczema. She's quit steroids because they just ceased to work and is now suffering from steroid withdrawal syndrome in addition to her eczema. Does anyone have any experience of using DMSO for eczema?
Obviously, given its potential to irritate skin then there's a potential issue with using it topically however I came across this publication which claims that a mixture of DMSO, honey and water reduces these issues. Could taking DMSO orally possibly work?
If anyone or the MWD has any experience or knowledge of this subject I'd be very grateful.
I control my psoriasis flare ups with Retin A. I discovered it by getting some to put on an old age spot. Decided that since nothing the dermatologist had prescribed worked for my psoriasis, I might as well put some on that too. Imagine my delight when a patch of psoriasis i had on my wrist for 8+ years totally went away!!!! I tell everyone about it!
Thanks Carol. The article doesn’t really say very much about eczema however my daughter scratches her skin quite a lot and she’s worried about applying DMSO on broken skin. To quote from the article “Individuals with eczema are not more sensitive to DMSO (unless the skin is already irritated).”
Try Dead Sea salt/epson salt bath. I use about 4 cups total/bath. Warm water, soak 20 min., cover as much of body as possible. Do not rinse. Every day. I am so sorry she is suffering. It is brutal and cruel.
I personally would recommend rinsing after an epsom soak, bec the skin could be detoxing while in the bath. Yes you’ll lose some Mg but you cd wash off with a wash cloth, then rinse, then add Mg back onto skin as you dry off, via a lotion or roller bottle. I’d think that’s safer than not rinsing at all. But it cd be negligible difference either way, I don’t have stats on that, just a gut feeling and knowledge of detoxing thru our skin. :-)
Are you on any of the Facebook steroid withdrawal groups? I think we should start a thread there, see if anyone has tried this. my son is now 11 yrs steroid free, but growth was definitely stunted from the hpa axis suppression and the hearing loss during withdrawal has caused residual learning issues as well. I am going to try some of this topically on the back of his neck to help the hormones and brain inflammation. would be good to have a dialogue about this in the groups. we could then report back to AMD...
I'm going to do it for me for my post concussion symptoms and frequent pain.
Thank you so much for this! I have been intrigued by the benefits of DMSO for over a year, and I'm very eager to read the next two parts of your writing on this. My particular interest has to do with chronic inflammation. My husband has the worst of this problem with a low back That becomes progressively painful during standing or walking. My inflammation is in my neck from an old injury which crushed the disc, both knees after suffering torn meniscus which were surgically repaired, a hip that appears to have arthritis when seen with an MRI, and a mid back region that flares after about 15 minutes of kitchen work. I would love to know more about dosage and frequency of application for ailments such as these in terms of both topical and oral routes, since I have no training in giving injections. Heartfelt blessings to you as always for being a source of wisdom That has helped me to achieve better health and well-being for myself and family members!
I am a 60 year old Air Force veteran with advanced Parkinson’s disease with DBS maxed out after just two years. I’ve had 18 heart attacks and 16 heart surgeries (quad bypass at 45, atherectomies, stents and catheters). c3-c7 laminectomy/laminaplasty for fractures and injuries resulting from injuries. Muscle atrophy from pinched nerves, dx Asperger’s as a child after vaccines that killed my younger brother (SIDS), 4 documented vaccine reactions (ER or doctors visits), and a lot of other medical issues and surgeries. I took statins from 24 years old after Iraq and first heart attack until Parkinson’s diagnosis and your statin articles with no chest pain for over a year now. I still backpack and powerlifting, manual labor around my mini farm with pretty good results with my PD progressing very fast. Lifetime of fitness seems to have paid off. My neurology team at the va seems to believe, based on my progression, I will be in a wheelchair with a feeding tube and severely disabled in 2-4 years. I agree based on my history with PD to date. No genetic markers for PD but I had known exposures to TCE and burn pits during Desert Storm. I believe statins thru mitochondrial impairment likely accelerated my PD. DMSO sounds promising. How do I find a doc to help with IV dosing or would oral be good? I am still backpacking but getting worse weekly and have no VA or Vanderbilt acceptable medical treatments left and I doubt they will help with dmso.
From all the information provided in this article, I understand that DMSO can be very interesting in the treatment of post-viral conditions, such as ME/CFS, FM, MCAS and POTS, since they all seem to have hypo perfusion, brain inflammation, low ATP production, blood clotting and amyloidosis traits. Are there any studies on these conditions and on the use of DMSO as a treatment?
I have DMSO at 70% at home, from a reliable lab, and would like to give it a try, starting at 0.05g/kilo weight. Since I don’t drink fruit juice, would it be too horrible to dilute it in osmotized water? Should I start with one dose, early in the morning? Do I need to avoid food for a certain period of time, after ingesting the DMSO? If my DMSO is at 70%, do I need to make a dilution of it, till I get it to 20%, and then calculate the 0.05g/kilo?
New to DMSO and have a bottle. I’ve used it mixed 50/50 with distilled water for achy joints and burning pain in wrist. It seems to have mostly taken care of it. Is there a protocol for tinnitus and vision improvement such as floaters that really impair my vision now.
Thank you, thank you for another outstanding article! What you are sharing is priceless. I had two questions/comments, while reading. 1: DMSO attacks some metals. Would the needle of the siringe /infusion not be a problem? Or do we have to deal with a lesser evil here, since there is no alternative? 2: What about DMSO enemas? I find that often enemas are a close second to infusions. Plus: they are easier to administer by patients themselves. Obviously, one would need to make sure that the plastic of the enema gear is compatible with DMSO.
The issue wasn't the metal needle but rather the plastic that was connected to it. That said, it is a lesser of two evils situation and that primarily matters at the higher concentrations.
Katia…I too am curious about DMSO enemas since it can get into the bloodstream quickly through the portal vein/ hepatic system. But I too worry about the plastic in any enema device. I hope someone can help us flesh out this idea.
Hi J, There are plastics considered safe with DMSO. When I have some time, I might research into enema kits that are safe. It might not be that easy to find out what the hose/tube is made of. The bucket should have an inscription on the bottom. There are vintage glass enema buckets. But the problem with the tube remains. On the other hand, the cap on my DMSO glass bottle is also plastic. It is hard to avoid.
I wish to join the many voices here thanking the writer profusely for this labor of love. I knew about DMSO but had no idea what an important medicine it is. This series provides so much detail and so much supporting data. It's a wonderful resource. I do have one question about drug interactions -- I noticed you mentioned DMSO's effect on platelet aggregation. Is it important to exercise caution in patients using anticoagulants? I care for an elderly stroke patient who uses Eliquis, and while I'm very anxious to find out whether he would benefit from IV DMSO therapy (if we can find a provider) I'm wondering whether there is any concern about combining DMSO with a blood thinner (or any other medications, for that matter.) I hope to hear from you. Many thanks again for a masterful article series.
I can see a lot of arguments in either direction, and ultimately, I can't answer the question because the data was never collected to assess that topic. If I had to guess I think it's more likely to not be an issue.
Gosh, thank you for your response. Your points about how protective DMSO is (especially to the blood vessels) made me think the same. So far we have only done topical applications, and I think he might be responding already, after only two treatments. Obviously that could be wishful thinking. Have you seen people respond so quickly when they are already months out from a severe stroke? And have you shared with your audience what the subject matter of the third installment will be? I'm looking forward to it. Thank you again
Given that DMSO is a solvent, is there a concern for patients with implantable devices such as a pacemaker? Is it possible that DMSO in the blood could leach toxins from the device?
Does one need to avoid DMSO whether topically, orally or through IV is they have a dental implant? And what tpical cream of gel do you recomment purchasing?
It may be an over-simplification, but there seems to be an underlying principle(s) running through Zeta potential, physiological charges and currents, the gel state of water and DMSO which is alien to modern mainstream medicine (and science.)
Thank you for the excellent and ongoing information. How modern medicine has fallen into control by big Pharma. I am so thankful for you.
Do you know if any studies have been done using DMSO topically on people with Hyper Mobile EDS? You mentioned using topically on people with varicose veins. . . just curious. Trying to look at all options/possibilities for my daughter who has EDS.
I an in Australia and already have DMSO, bought it from here www.dmso.com.au , hopefully a good product. I will begin using it for diagnosed brain bleed to repair damage hopefully
Thank you so much for all you do, you are a true blessing to our family and we use this knowledge to educate ourselves, in our journey towards better health, and avoid at all costs the need to participate in the medical system. All of your articles have helped us tremendously as I and the kids are injured in a myriad of ways from unnecessary / counterproductive surgeries, childhood and other vaccines (we had wizened up, thankfully, to this in time to avoid the Covid Vax disaster), and Covid vax shedding. We are currently doing Andrew Cutler chelation (DMSA and ALA - 4 days on and 4 days off) and am wondering if/how DMSO interacts with DMSA or ALA in this process. If I use DMSO for neurological treatment from the earlier vaccines, I would think to only apply (likely just topically to the head) on the days we are not chelating with DMSA/ALA. Please let me know if you have any cautions or recommendations you would have in this situation. Incidentally, I am aiming to set up a UVBI clinic in our small mid-west town, as I believe our family along with so many other people can benefit from this treatment. Thank you and sending our love to you!
Jenny, I too am thinking about creating a UVBI clinic where as live as the nearest location is a 4 hour drive one way! I’m curious are you a nurse or doctor? Are you connected with one or are you able to do this kind of treatment without being a nurse/doctor? How do you plan to execute treatments to others?
i am wondering if any of your family have had any bad reactions to dmsa - i ended up putting a skull and crossbones on my bottle of it as a warning to others . . .
Interesting article. You can't bottle sunshine so we ignore the value of vitamin D. DMSO can be bottled but it is cheap! The following statement on DMSO is interesting.
DMSO is a commercially manufactured dipolar aprotic solvent which is also a naturally occurring substance. It is apparently a part of earth’s complex sulfur cycle. DMSO is created in the atmosphere at a rate of 20-60 billion pounds per year from dimethyl sulfide, which is produced by metabolic processes in soil and sediments
How they figured out 20-60 billion pounds are produced naturally is beyond my understanding. It raises the question if DMSO is responsible for spontaneous healing?
On another topic, it is my understanding that if you inject cortisone immediately upon spinal injury that may cause paralysis, that the cortisone protects the nerves from being destroyed by the iron in bleeds.
My doctor friend who was a pathologist claimed he convinced the NFL physicians to use it immediately if a player had a severe back injury.
The evidence using steroids in those situations is very weak, whereas the evidence for DMSO is much stronger. The primary source of DMSO is as a byproduct of wood pulping.
I got COVID in Sept of 2022. Have suffered from progressive bilateral peripheral neuropathy (numbness) to the bottom of both feet since. It started at the heels and progressed forward to the toes over the course of a year. Would DMSO applied topically to the bottom of feet be helpful potentially? What concentration would be appropriate?
Hello! Thank you for this article. I’ve become a paid subscriber because of it. I have a question I hope you can help with. Can DMSO be taken alongside psychiatric medication?
I can't give a clear answer on that one (too many thing to take into consideration). In the case of some (e.g., benzos) it will make their effects stronger. I don't know how it interacts with SSRIs or antipsychotics. Conversely, it will also has a good shot of decreasing the need for the medications.
Thank you. One more question - could it prevent or reverse necrosis of the bladder caused by ketamine addiction? (Very complicated story - my daughter 😞)
Many thanks for the info and the way it is presented, so one is provided with enough knowledge to search a possible solution for a specific medical issue, untreatable by standard procedures. My case, large BCC, nonresponsive to imiquimod, BEC-5. Your article resulted in finding a book mentioning combined use of DMSO and laetrile:
I’ve tried BEC-5 without success for multiple BCC and SCC so tried FEN/IVER paste with DMSO without success and several different essential oils and Gallixa with DMSO with maybe mild results. I’m currently trying 35% Hydrogen Peroxide without DMSO but will be adding that after reading this article. I’m curious to know of your results with the Laetrile.
Several years ago I treated SCC with BEC-5 and obtained good results. But after a while, bleeding started at the same spot and treating with BEC-5 didn't work. Neither did a pasta with DMSO and DCA, nor local products. So I visited a dermatologist and the biopsy was BCC. The advice was operation but I don't think that will work well for a 4" area. Hence my ongoing search, another discovery was Boswellia sacra, see
I used black salve for such a problem on myself and my friends have done same. Coincidentally, DMSO is part of the black salve recipe, used as a penetrant for the active ingredients.
I haven't tried that yet but in the meanwhile found something that apparently worked for many: crushed broccoli (procedure appears to work better with the sprouts):
I haven't heard of broccoli sprouts (sulforaphane) being used for carcinomas. It is very effective with some other cancers. If you do want to do this, freeze the sprouts as soon as you harvest as this increases sulforaphane greatly.
Broccoli sprouts unavailable here nor the seeds to produce them. The broccoli available is a variant produced to cope with the all-year 12 hours daylight, high altitude regions in the tropics. The alternative to use mustard powder to improve myrosinase required for sulforophane production won't work either as it lowers pH to a level causing the BCC area to become painful enough to prevent treatment. Same issue with alkaline topical treatment.
mg/kg or g/kg is the standard way doses are written. You have to convert volume to grams of DMSO present, which is largely dependent on what the starting DMSO concentration of your substance is.
I'm used to working with mg/ml concentrations. Banamine is 50 mg/ml concentration and the equine dosage is .5 mg/lb. Dose for 1000# horse is 10cc. So for dmso if the concentration is (essentially) 100%, how do you determine the mg/ml concentration? (V)(%)=(V)(%)?
Wikipedia says 1.1004 g⋅cm−3. Somebody lyin' 😎 As a card-carrying member of the lackadaisical club, permit me to make the case that approximation is (usually) adequate with dosing, especially when potency or toxicity is not a paramount issue.
70 % dilution (99% dmso + distilled water in a glass spray bottle). Apply to affected areas once a day and rub in. I haven't tried orally yet but plan to.
One more question. You mention in this article that evidence supports using methylene blue for TBI recovery. I am curious if you have any thoughts about the effectiveness of methylene blue for mitochondrial repair as it compares to the efficacy of DMSO for this purpose. Thanks!
You are the reason my husband recovered from a stroke 11 months ago. I have no words to thank you!
Now I have a different dilema involving a 54 yo autistic male with severe social withdrawal and language problems. I saw your incredible case studies on Down's Syndrome.
Is there any reason to suspect that DMSO would not also help this poor soul?
It's really odd, but no one has tried DMSO for autism so I don't actually know (and I've looked). So any protocol would essentially be a guess. Drinking, ideally with amino acids, might help if they can tolerate it.
It is odd isn’t it? But from the b+w photos of the Down Syndrome boy who was transformed with DMSO, my guess is that those studies were probably done about 20-30 years before autism became an epidemic.
Now it’s time to see what DMSO can do for autism. 💪
I managed to find a few studies on PubMed where autistic children up to age 18 were given copious amounts of injectable vitamin B12 (methylcobalamin) plus methylfolate. The studies were small and there was no real follow up. But the initial feedback from the caretakers was encouraging.
Which amino acids specifically should his parents buy for him? I heard from a homeopath that fish oils are very helpful as well.
To help with mild dementia is IV the only protocol? or recipe for taking it orally if that would also work. I'm also losing a lot of hair, so I do put it on my head at night at about 70%.... Please and Thank you. This is a wonderful article as all of yours are, and so appreciated.
APPRECIATE YOUR STUPENDOUS WORK FOR OUR WELFARE HERE.
So many are benefiting and living far more healthily than they have for years. Many suffering or experiencing the suffering of other loved ones which is another type of suffering, are finding efficacious options our Medical Complex has hidden or destroyed in their selfish agendas geared towards profit.
With those rare physicians as you it seems the PLANDEMIC has provided opportunities for networking and info-sharing unlike any other of modern time. For those of us suffering iatrophobia...You're a God-Send.🌹🙏🏻
Do you have info on dropper bottles that are safe droppers for use with dmso,,,, I know about the tube part of the dropper to be glass,, along with the bottle but,,, what about the bulb part of the dropper,,,, are they ok or not,,, if not,,,, can you inform me of a dropper product that is completely safe using dmso,,,.
Can you please add one more thing to your list. Why are Neurologists so useless in treating cognitive decline. And now a BIG THANK YOU. My husband has cognitive decline/Alzheimers?
I have learned more from you on on how to treat it then the Neurologist we are seeing. From you I found out about Lupron and Prolia, two injections his urologist had him on. Also UBI and DMSO for the brain and just the encouragement to keep looking for treatments. This is what the neurologist has done so far:
Given him an Montreal Cognitive assessment test.
A Cat scan and MRI of the brain
A genetic test for Alzheimers
A blood test to look for amyloid Plaque
told to drink a gallon of water a day and wait until you decline more than we will put you on drugs.
This is what we have done thanks to you:
Found a Functional Medicine Doctor to test his hormones, found the Lupron had totally depleted his testosterone.
Also tested his microbiome found issues and treated those.
Did a nutraEval to test nutrient absorbtion added supplements as needed.
Found a naturopathic doctor that started him on UBI treatments and brain and other supplements.
The MRI showed he may have had a slight stroke so I have him rub DMSO on his head
Made an already healthy diet( I have a degree in nutrition) even healthier.
Went to a biological dentist and had 4 infected root canals removed. Used DMSO in healing
Started an exercise program- often taking 2 classes a day including Tia Chi and walks and lifts weights.
And again thanks to you we now drink and use in cooking reverse osmosis water.
His naturopathic doctor after testing his sodium, just started him on adrenal support.
My husband, much to the Nuerologist surprise has not declined any from the last 6 months and I have seen improvements. He still struggles with memory, but he can still function.
If you know of anything else to do, that would be helpful. Again thank you, just reading your column gives me strength to fight on when I get very little encouragement from family or friends. Unbelievable how many are brain washed by the medical establishment.
Dear AMD, thank you so much for all you do for us! I am not sure if this has been asked before: Could you use DMSO daily for life as a preventative? I have many health issues (ME/CFS, POTS, PEM, brain fog, 100s of keratotic lesions, dental issues, vision issues, chronic sinus inflammation, edema, varicose vein, weak connective tissues, joint pain, infertility, shedding induced menopause, etc.), and am more stable through a very strict diet. I am considering trying DMSO to help with those issues (especially for the brain/nerve inflammation from ME/CFS, the 20+ year sinus inflammation, gum inflammation). But once an issue has resolved, would you keep applying DMSO, or just keep taking it internally? And given DMSO's miraculous results, if by any chance I can heal many of those issues, do I keep taking it? I have also read from a spiritual healer that those keratotic lesions are basically toxins that the body has transported to the skin - so by applying DMSO topically wouldn't all those toxins get transported back into the system and re-poison me? With only a few of those lesions I would definitely apply DMSO, but since I have so many I am a little bit worried. Btw. I am only 53, but have been sick with ME/CFS + edema for over 40 years. Many thanks!!!
Also dealing with ME/CFS, FM, MCAS and POTS, for over 24 years, and worse after three mild bouts of covid and unvaccinated. I already have the 70% bottle of DMSO and trying to understand how to take it orally, by first diluting it to 20% and then starting dosing at 0.05g/kilo weight in water. A bit complicated.
Dear Cristina, I am so sorry to hear that you are also dealing with these health issues :( I have been doing the Medical Medium protocol (Anthony William), and it has really helped me. Some of my symptoms have healed (i.e. Gout), but I am still battling with all of the above. All the best to you!
So I have Raynauds but I'm a little confused about treating with DMSO. Is the treatment topical or oral? If oral what is the dose?
“For example, the leading DMSO researcher found that 50% of patients with Raynaud’s syndrome had their symptoms eliminated with DMSO”….
and that thrombophlebitis responds excellently to DMSO and two researchers, using plethysmographic methods, demonstrated objective improvement in peripheral artery insufficiency in a large number of patients receiving topical DMSO . Likewise, DMSO has been shown to improve diabetic circulatory impairments such as peripheral neuropathy, or diabetic ulcers (where one study of hundreds of patients reported over a 94% treatment success rate) and prevent future amputations.
Can you provide a suggested protocol on how to use this if someone has a stroke? You said you have told other people what to do but I did not see any concise info besides applying it to the head. Most of us won’t be able to get a hospital to apply by IV will we?
Thank you for your articles on DMSO, they are very interesting. I would like to know what you might recommend for what seems to be an issue I’m having with parasympathetic system. A brief history, I’ve always had some white coat syndrome high BP but then I went on a 3 year low carb diet with a lot of fasting that caused my BP to skyrocket and me not to tolerate any stress. A year ago I got sick with a two week fever and a cough that lasted a few months. Since then I have had many food sensitivities, I get high BP episodes, irregular heartbeats, times of low BP, days of fatigue, bouts with insomnia, periodic night sweats, and heat sensations over my body. My GP did all kinds of tests, so has my cardiologist but can’t find an infection or anything wrong. My cardiologist and health coach think something off with parasympathetic system. I’m meditating, doing breathing and relaxation exercises and have dialed in diet in a bioenergetic model. I get weeks of feeling great but then have days or weeks that feel awful. I was considering trying DMSO. Do you suggest a certain protocol?
Take it orally and see if anything changes (may want to start with a few drops instead of a teaspoon). Other option is to see if taking zeta aid improves it at all. A good chinese medicine doctor might be able to help with this too.
Low carb diets can certainly cause these things. I was on it longer than that with damage to my thyroid and a metabolism that hit the basement where trying to eat just a few more carbs put weight on. My BP went up as well. I’m trying a more pro metabolic protocol as well.
Thanks for sharing. It does seem low carb causes a lot of issues for some of us. Have you had any improvements since switching? How long ago did you switch ? I switched about a year ago and have a number of improvements but still can’t handle stress that well whether physical or mental but that too has improved some. After a year I would say I feel at 80% but still hoping for more improvement but it’s slow. Have you tried DMSO? I’m curious to try and see if it helps with any symptoms.
Hi Doc, I am surprised and disappointed in what seems to be your dismissal of my question, even though it was not one of your typically adoring viewer comments. I asked about a research paper that had published a report that brought into question the safety of DMSO. If you have actually dismissed it, and if it not just some sort of a misunderstanding of your process here, your apparent negative action is no better than those taken by those three-letter regulatory agents that have shunned your work on DMSO. I believe my question about the article I mentioned (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4169574/) is worthy of a respectful response, because the mitochondrial density of astrocytes (in brain and spinal cord) is similar to that in neurons.
This 2014 article is not a fluke. On the contrary, it has attracted a lot of attention in the research community. For example, this one article has 73 cited-by's and 97 "similar articles."
I got hundreds of correspondences and my time is incredibly stretched.
What it's describing has not been observed clinically (e.g., you can preserve neurons in it, developmentally disabled children with neurological issues significantly improve from DMSO, patients with mitochondrial disorders significantly improve).
So, that either means it's an issue with the experimental design that is not applicable in biological systems or the changes high concentrations of DMSO creates are small enough they can only be detected with very sensitive diagnostic technology (at which point most things become toxic).
Low concentration of a compound damages mitochondria.
Higher concentration inhibits cell growth.
Higher concentration kills cells.
Approximately 90% of substances in existence kill most cells at 1%
Most substances stop cell growth at 0.001% concentration and often much lower (ie. 0.00001%)
Most substances impair mitochondrial function at much lower concentrations, but the exact data for those rangers is unclear.
A classic way compounds are tested for toxicity is to see what % is needed to create each of those effects on cells. You never see the same effects in the body (unless it is toxic at very low concenrations) because they rapidly dillute in the body. DMSO diffuses especially fast, so in effect to have a 1% concentration of it (the threshold for possibile mitochondrial effects) you'd need to drink nearly a liter per day, whereas at most people have a few teaspoons. Conversely, if it's only obtained by applying to the skin, it's effectively impossible to ever reach that concentration unless you spent a prolonged period sitting in a vat of pure DMSO.
Dr. I belong to an online group healing and restoring our metabolism harmed through long time low carb, keto, carnivore, fasting, IF, under eating, eating disorders, etc. The truth is not being told by the corresponding gurus. I was able to give this series to the group and we are talking about it. Thank God for MWD and Substack!
Thank you. My honest perspective on the diet is that everyone responds to different diets, and generally the quality of the food (e.g., how many nutrients, are there toxic additives in it) matter more than the specific balance of macronutrients.
I can agree with that. I try to eat the best I can, but found I had to eat more of it! I mostly under ate most of my life. I now believe most of these diets respond simply by removing toxic food and weight is lost by eating less food period, as they encourage under eating and eventually just become very low calorie diets as appetite is suppressed . There is no magic in high fat. Actually fat has very few nutrients.
Purchased DMSO and brands mentioned. Helpful immediately for muscle pain, bruising and scare tissue. I have Raynaud’s from Moderna shot, not sure how to use DMSO for Raynaud’s
From Amazon I ordered the DMSO store bottle came yesterday in glass, I had previously ordered NO ODOR DMSO - Dimethyl sulfoxide liquid (3.4 Oz - 100ml), Pharmaceutical grade, High purity, Heiltropfen It had no odor so makes me wonder if that is actually the good stuff
I beleive that the bottles from DMSO store are good. We have used them for years. They do crystalize, and I can taste it after when used topically. I personally have a very acute sense of smell and I can smell the DMSO bottle when its on the counter, but my husband does not. The "odor' perception might vary form person to person.
Thank you for bringing this information to us. I have added DMSO to my home formulary and both my wife and I have begun using it for different maladies.
My I make one point, perhaps a correction, to something mentioned in this article? I believe it is worth noting... After almost 40 years of assessing patients with neurologic trauma and neurological medical disorders, and teaching anatomy/physiology/and prehospital treatment, I think we must assert that if a patient displays facial droop or a fixed gaze to one side then the affected vasculature will be on that SAME side (not the opposite side) due to the 12 cranial nerves serving those areas. Then any deficit in the extremities (arms and legs) will be caused by an interruption in the vasculature on the opposite side.
MWD, you are my first subscription to Substack. Keep up the amazing work!
Hello Doc. First I’d like to thank you for all of the work you have put into this article. I have been using DMSO on my dad since his recent hip replacement. I am getting mixed results. I am experimenting with it. Some feedback on your article. First, I think you need to provide some very concrete steps on how to do (i.e. 70%) concentration level if you want to mix it. I have been using 50% because I know it is 2 parts. Secondly, I am told by my mentor, who is kinesiologist that the spleen is the main organ that controls pain. Which for other readers, is on the left side of the body, under the nipple. If this is not working or blocked, you will get mixed results. It may be helpful to put DMSO on this point. Thirdly, if people are taking other pain medications, DMSO needs to be used /applied hours after the pain medication is used. It may be helpful for people who have chronic conditions to have DMSO topical applications put applied to spine area/ whole spine.
You provide so much info, which is great, and in so much time, but it can be overwhelming. I’d suggest to slow it down. There is a lot to absorb here. I have this problem as well. Lastly, I want to direct readers to divine love protocol by Robert Fritchie. Here is one of his videos. https://youtu.be/d2Xo1eQImwo. Blessings, Michele
can you clarify on the oral dosage.. to start do you want 3.5 grams of 20/80 percent dmso/distilled water mix ( and then juice for taste ), or do you want 3.5 grams of 99 percent dmso then dilute that with juice for taste?
and can that natures gift brand (the pictured bottle with red label and 70/30 mixture) be safely used orally (if i mixed it correctly based off whatever the math is in answer to my first question)?
Hi MWD. I believe I have polymyalgia rheumatica. Intense pain in neck, shoulders, hips, and hands and somewhat in feet. Pain lessens throughout day. Unbearable at night and getting out of bed in AM. No blood indicators of autoimmune, but have never been so miserable in my life. I started taking a teaspoon of 99.9% Pharma grade DMSO at night in grapefruit juice. Do you recommend this. I have such large areas of pain, that I thought this would be easier than rubbing it over extensive areas. I read Healing with DMSO by Amanda Vollmer. Thoughts?
Posting this here too because I am new to Substack posting and not sure how to do this??
Wow. I had never heard of this before. It sounds like a miracle drug. Having worked in the ICU and ER for years as a young nurse, I look back on all the lives this would have saved or improved had we used it. I’m not surprised the pharmaceutical companies won’t use it —but the fact that the FDA won’t approve its use and make it available is unconscionable. Are they protecting the public or the pharmaceutical companies? (That’s a rhetorical question, of course).
My heart breaks thinking about this and the people who might have been saved, including my 17 y.o. niece who suffered a traumatic brain injury in a car accident with resulting increased ICP. They couldn’t control the swelling, even with mannitol—her brain herniated.
I abbreviated a lot of the technical details so this wouldn't be too long, but I tried to leave enough in that the importance of it would jump out to healthcare workers.
Thank you. Your research is always very interesting and helpful. I agree with Dr Kory’s statement regarding how beneficial this might’ve been. I’ve followed the FLCCC protocols from their inception. Doctors behaving like doctors — it gives me hope.
Thank you for your exceedingly helpful and informative work! I wonder if you would consider doing an article on the use of low dose naltrexone? I have been experiencing chronic fatigue, pain, anxiety, depression and sleep disturbance for more than 10 years. I have recently discovered that I have not been absorbing nutrients due to multiple GI issues. It has been suggested that I consider the use of LDN to address many of my symptoms. Would be very interested in hearing your stance on LDN. Thank you!
I really appreciate the in depth information. However, I am not a medical person and am wondering for the novice if you can break down the oral dosage into drops and dilution needed for various conditions. Example: 100% DMSO 1 drop per 1/2 cup water or juice 4 times a day for stroke or blood clots or arthritis and how to build up the dose if needed. Or is there a book that covers this. The book you recommended looks like it is for physicians for IV or IM use
And a bit more info on what one can dilute the 100% DMSO with and how often you can rub it on your skin for back or muscle issues or peripheral neuropathy or carpal tunnel.
I appreciated the info from Mark Farris and the keratosis lesions as I have some of them too.
1/2 teaspoon of 100% or 70% DMSO in a glass of water that is mixed. Can gradually raise to 1 teaspoon or 1.5 teaspoons. With topical, start with applying 30% and then raise to 70% if you can tolerate.
Thank you so much for your very informative articles. I have purchased one of the DMSO products you mentioned in this article. I plan on using this on my arthritic knees, but in the meantime, I recently had some dental work and the result is I have extreme gum sensitivity. My functional medicine dentist did take an ex ray and saw the nerve is irritated. I have been using DMSO on my jawline. Would you recommend putting on the gum directly? Should it be mixed with something else before applying? I did buy the liquid version DMS 70/30. Thanks so much for your opinion.
My daughter has cerebral palsy and subsequent developmentmental delays. Her MRI shows significant brain damage. Neither the pediatrician nor neurologist had any knowledge of this. Will there be any research with CP in mind? Is there any hope my daughter could benefit from DMSO?
I saw that MS will be covered soon. I'm so excited about this. My best friend was diagnosed years ago and has suffered tremendously.
Thank you for the months of work you have done to put this together.
Thank you for this article. I subscribed because of it. Do you think DMSO could help with optic nerve healing? I take 1/2 teaspoon in coffee in the am.
I read all the comments and appreciate the insights and details. With regards to an allergic response, I have a question about the chemical similarity to Sam-e and MSM. I can't take either of those without getting a rash or becoming nauseated. Years ago when I was put on a sulfa antibiotic, I vomited relentlessly that the doctor had to prescribe prednisone to stop the reaction. I really want to try DMSO, however I don't know enough about chemistry to know if I will react. I also read about Molybdenum and am taking 25mcg in a Core Minerals supplement that Dr. Collin of the Townsend Letter prescribed (before he retired, sadly). Not sure if that is high enough. Regardless, I need to try DMSO for a neck injury that is getting worse as I age. Does anyone have an opinion if DMSO is different enough from MSM biochemically? And when I do a trial, what would be a reasonable dosage and method? Thank you!
If DMSO stabilizes proteins, thereby helping in various genetic disorders, would it be reasonable to think it could apply to the treatment of polycystic kidney disease?
My best guess is that it would help the disorder by generally strengthening the kidneys (which it has been shown to do in other conditions) but I am not aware of any data on this.
This is a wonderful deep dive into an incredible substance . As a veterinarian it was pretty popular back in the 80,s but I do not see it so much anymore. Looks like it needs a rebirth! Personally I will attest it carried some topical steroid into a very swollen knee (blew out running when I was in my residency) and between the DMSO and the steroid it worked amazing Note: it was a topical ear product we had available at the time. I thought maybe I was crazy but now I know better Thank you for your work and this will be reread ....
Might topical DMSO be helpful for a spinal cord injury from 2015, back pain and severe nerve pain from many spinal surgeries (degenerative condition)? These are 3different people.
Tested skin full strength, no prob. Did 7 grams. Why. Life is complex but I think my HVAC is triggering a complete blockage of nasal passages with constant drip. No I don’t have seasonal allergies but I do have the genetics the that reabsorb mold. The HVAC tech says the HVAC is fine. Wish I had a portable pathogen tester as everyone is a bit unique. So far no bad reactions. I can also tolerate 75 grams of IV C twice per week. Yes, the hospital did a number on me. 😂
I too have the HLA gene “defect” with mold/biotoxin susceptibility that triggered CIRS. I’m trying DMSO as I can’t leave my rental and most buildings will have water damage/mold issues. I too had a response of raised body tem
I also subscribed because of the DMSO article and am anxiously awaiting the other parts. I know so many people who could have been helped by DMSO and maybe it is not too late for some. Thank you so much.
DMSO Could Save Millions From Brain and Spinal Injury
The decades of evidence showing DMSO revolutionizes the care of many "untreatable" circulatory and neurologic conditions.
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Story at a Glance:
•DMSO is a remarkably safe chemical that protects cells from otherwise fatal stressors (e.g., freezing, burning, shockwaves, ischemia). Since the heart, brain, and spinal cord are particularly vulnerable to injury, DMSO can produce miraculous results for those conditions.
•The usage of DMSO completely transforms the management of strokes (including brain bleeds), heart attacks, and spinal cord injuries. As I will show here, had the FDA not sabotaged DMSO’s adoption, in addition to countless lives being saved, millions could have been protected from a lifetime of disability or paralysis.
•DMSO has many other remarkable properties. For example, it stabilizes proteins, and thus treats many challenging protein disorders (e.g., amyloidosis and numerous genetic disorders).
•Many conditions DMSO treats are typically considered to be incurable. In this article, I will focus on DMSO’s remarkable utility for the conditions that respond best to intravenous DMSO (e.g., a variety of circulatory disorders like varicose veins or Raynaud’s) and complex neurological disorders (e.g., Down’s Syndrome, Developmental Delay, ALS, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s), along with how to administer IV DMSO and DMSO stroke protocols.
If I were stranded on a desert island or knew the world was ending and I could only bring a few therapies with me, one of them, without a doubt, would be DMSO. This is because:
•It treats a wide range of severe illnesses which are often otherwise incurable and frequently fatal or lead to a lifetime of permanent disability.
"•It effectively treats acute injuries and rehabilitates chronic musculoskeletal disorders (e.g., arthritis). Because of this, it’s one of the best “pain medicines” out there and has allowed many to get their lives back.
•It has a variety of unique properties that open up a completely different dimension to how medicine can be practiced.
•It is one of the safest medically active substances in existence."
The lists of these remedies and their premeditated, convoluted delegitimization is getting longer by the day.
If you have a multi-system chronic disease that’s inflammatory at the root, is it best to start taking DMSO orally rather than other methods of application? Or, if I have Colitis and ulcers, and other gut related issues, is it better to just rub DMSO at 70% directly on my belly?
If DMSO can readily cross the blood brain barrier, and also as a sulfur bearing chemical, similar to DMSA and DMPS, can chelate heavy metals, are you not concerned that DMSO will pick up heavy metals from the tissue and carry and deposit the heavy metals in the brain?
To my knowledge that issue has never been observed with DMSO. Also, the sulfur chelating agents use -SH groups, which is very different from what's present in DMSO.
I have a low platelet count, though it has not caused any harm and I've had a couple of operations without any problems. If I cut myself it probably takes longer to stop bleeding. I hope DMSO is not a no-no for me because of the low platelets!
I am keen to try DMSO. However, according to Dr Keith Scott-Mumby ,and some available research, although DMSO has many positive benefits it may damage the mitochondria - please can the Mid-Western Doctor, or any other knowledgeable person, please comment on this point.
You mentioned in this article that you can use hydrogen peroxide with DMSO through the skin. I have used hydrogen peroxide diluted in 8 ounces of distilled water and would like to know if I can combine that with the DMSO?
AMD, a question on DMSO: a friend suffered a severe stroke several months ago and has been told he may never use one of his arms again. Is it possible for DMSO to make a meaningful impact this long after the event? Midwestern Doctor, appreciate all your research and efforts. The breadth of topics and the detail in which you cover them are hugely impressive!
Medicine Girl writes very plainly about the dangers of DMSO. It’s a solvent, and the paper industry found a way to wrap profits from its waste, much like fluoride in water. What’s the truth about DMSO? I’ve been using it from time to time but no longer until I know more.
She keeps posting that to get traffic. It's highly inaccurate, but each time we try to explain (along with dozens of readers who have tried as well), she says we are brainwashed by the medical field and don't understand what we are talking about since anything else cost her views and refuses to correct anything (along with telling everyone who says DMSO helped them a lot and had no side effect that their experience, for one reason or another, doesn't count). For example, the moment they realized DMSO had medical applications (in the 1960s), they stopped producing it from wood pulp and switched to a cleaner process because pharmaceutical standards require pure products.
Her brand essentially is saying commonly used natural therapies are actually toxic and you need to just do detoxs and elimination diets so she's written a lot of rediculous hit pieces. When we looked at her arguments, we realized that she was juxtaposing common issues with other pharmaceuticals onto DMSO (which is a common thing people do, as due to it being hard to fully understand a subject, they always juxtapose their pre-existing knowledge base onto it).
Regarding the deaths, the points she's omitting is that in all but one of them, another product was involved, as on FAERS if someone has a lethal reaction to a drug, they list all the other things they were taking as well, and in those cases, it was more likely culprit of death, and in many cases, they were being given intravenously (where a higher risk of death, particularly the onyx cases where the DMSO polymer mixture was being used to patch an otherwise fatal internal bleed and hence was a high risk situation). When I wrote the safety article, amongst other things I read through all the FAERS reports and explained them, no one else has done that. Conversely, most medications have thousands of deaths in FAERS, many of which can be directly attributed to the drug. The fact that over roughly 40 years 21 deaths are in there almost none of which can be attributed to DMSO is an insane safety profile. The primary drug DMSO replaces (NSAIDS like ibuprofen) are well recognized to kill hundreds of people each day, and their toxicity is rarely discussed.
At the very start of the DMSO series, I expected there would be a lot of pharmaceutical hit pieces written on DMSO. For that reason, a year ago, I wrote an extensive article on the history of DMSO and the safety of it. If you compare the articles to her piece, it should be clear it was hastily done and grossly inaccurate.
Additionally, she actually incidentally proved DMSO was very safe. I just left this comment on the article:
I made a decision to avoid promoting this article in anyway to avoid contaminating or biasing the sample with proDMSO voices because I felt it would be an excellent natural experiment (due to you casting a wide net to solicit adverse reactions to DMSO and simultaneously antagonizing a lot of people who had benefitted from DMSO with your inflammatory and dismissive language).
I gave this a month and then today went through and sorted every comment you received which pertained to direct experiences with DMSO. Of the 99 responses received which appeared to discuss direct experiences with DMSO:
•64 were positive reports, 81% of which an AI system characterized as “profound” improvements.
•17 suggested a positive direct experience, but did not explicitly state so in the comment.
•2 were impossible to determine if a benefit, harm or no effect occurred.
•6 stated no benefit occurred. However, most of these were for conditions where DMSO is known not to work (and hence not advised).
•2 implied no benefit occurred, but it was unclear.
•12 individuals reported tolerable and temporary reactions which are known side effects of DMSO, 7 of whom were also included in one of the previous tallies (e.g., someone who benefitted from it noticed there was a tolerable rash).
•3 individuals reported more severe reactions. Two of these were tolerable and temporary, while the third resulted from DMSO being combined with oregano oil.
For context, that equates to a 91% success rate (and much higher if you remove the instances where DMSO is not recommended for the specific ailment). Likewise, 14% reported adverse responses, most of which were minor and had no consequence besides the individual not wanting to continue the therapy.
Put differently from a sample of user experiences which was designed to be highly biased towards DMSO, you demonstrated that it's safety and efficacy is much higher than any other therapy on the market. However, when individuals reported positive responses, your consistent choice was to gaslight them.
Finally, the worse reaction someone had was when it was combined with oregano oil. I personally use and prescribe oregano oil and think it's lovely when used appropriately, but also quite strong and irritating. I hence found it noteworthy that, to the best of my knowledge, the only therapy you have ever endorsed on here, which you described as a panacea and heavily downplayed any adverse reactions from (despite it being strong enough that it will cause issues if used incorrectly). For context, the LD50 for oral oregano oil is 748–1,556 mg/kg in rats, whereas DMSO's LD50 is 14,500. I have no issue with oregano oil, but it is much more toxic than many of the other therapies I've seen you attack (ie. it's 10-20 times more toxic than DMSO).
Outstanding analysis. I’ve read all your DMSO articles, which is why hers took me by surprise. It’s been the only anti-DMSO voice I’ve heard. I should have looked more closely at her writing, and perhaps her background. I wonder if I’d find pharma ties, but it’s difficult to dig deeply when the writer is essentially anonymous. I’ll look harder at her, though. Thank you as always for your kind and thorough response. I notice how truth tellers don’t mind questions. They’re ready with facts and logic. 😉. I really appreciate learning from you. We MUST take control of our own health, and that requires knowledge. Truth on, AMD.
Re DMSO... the pieces you've written are fascinating and a great example of how our so-called healthcare system is failing the public it's meant to serve. Question: a friend suffered a severe stroke several months ago and has been told he may never use one of his arms again. Is it possible for DMSO to make a meaningful impact this long after the event? Midwestern Doctor, appreciate all your research and efforts. The breadth of topics and the detail are hugely impressive!
Are you aware of any ways in which DMSO, or other umbrella therapies, might be useful in the treatment of Fluoroquinolone side effects or Fluoroquinolone-Associated Disability?
I have spoken to people who had luck with nebulizing glutathione for the heart and lung issues and people who've had success with stem cells, but my data is limited on this one.
Here in the UK I had a team try to finish me off; a very long story to be published one day. By pure chance, (I am an inventor), so I had been trying out how to introduce a large quantity of Vitamin C into a DMSO distilled water solution. This what I did, and it works.
To make a DMSO solution, take 200g of water, add the 200g of vitamin C and the 10g of vitamin B1 and very gently heat it in a clean high quality stainless steel saucepan, (I used a wooden spoon to continuously stir). Indeed the vitamins were completely dissolved without any high temperature. Leave it to cool, it remains in solution. Then add the 200g of DMSO, and pour it into your glass bottle. Interestingly, the bottle will feel warm afterwards, so the addition of the DMSO is exothermic, the addition creates a small amount of heat. I left it overnight and added two teaspoonsful to a glass of water before breakfast, drank that and an additional glass of water.
You can work out for yourselves how much vitamin C is delivered from the quantities. My scales tell me you will receive 7g of the solution per teaspoonful, divided by 3 gives you 2.3 grams of vitamin C. I had added the vitamin B1 as the work of Dr Paul Makis, who discovered his cure for sepsis using intravenous injections only worked if vitamin B1 is added to the vitamin C. My instincts that brought me to try this a few weeks ago, told me that as DMSO has properties that can be used to deliver directly into the blood stream, it was worth a try to see if it would deliver high levels of vitamin C without too much disturbance to one's gut, and it works.
Mind you, my first trying two teaspoonful produces a quite dramatic but short term effect, :) I can tell you, it is in circulation within a 1/4 hour, and one's temperature rises to create a sweat that is at first a WoW! dizzy effect, thus that I am suggesting sticking to the one at a time for a first try. Try it three times a day certainly until you get used to it.
I have been daily taking two teaspoonful of it ever since; with NO problems whatever.
I truly appreciate everything you do. Thank you! I have suffered from GERD for well over a decade. I do not take PPIs, but I do use TUMS and baking soda. I have a hiatal hernia and esophageal erosion causing stricture and narrowing. Are there facilities that provide intraperitoneal DMSO treatments? Can taking DMSO orally help soothe and heal the erosion? Can a hiatal hernia be treated without surgery? Lately, I have been experiencing discomfort from my hernia at different times of the day, and I am a bit concerned. However, my gastroenterologist only push PPIs. I don’t know where to turn... DMSO sounds promising.
I just subscribed to you, via Dr. Mercola’s blog. I am praying that DMSO might be effective to treat coccidioidomycosis, AKA Valley Fever. My husband was diagnosed last December after getting hospitalized with pneumonia, he ended up in the ICU twice. He was treated with antibiotics and then amphotericin via IV, which caused kidney failure, luckily they stopped the at treatment and he is now taking fluconazole, 400 mg daily. We are hoping for a way to get him off of fluconazole, as it has some unpleasant side effects. He still has some pain in the right lung, and at the last check, there is still an indication of a much reduced area of Valley Fever. This is causing him to experience fatigue and has curtailed his activity.
I would like to try using DMSO to see if that could help. I’m not sure what dose to try, or whether to try it topically or have him take it with juice or water. Do you have any advice for us? He is 72 and is otherwise healthy.
I need some help, my 19 year old son (no covid vax) just had a venous sinus thrombosis thank God no stroke or bleeding they gave him blood thinners and said the body will take care of the clot on its own, he's an A+ student and really wants to get back to his studies but cant fully, because of the headaches, I'd like for him to try DMSO but concerned it might make the clot disolve to quickly and a piece can get stuck in his lung or leg God forbid. Is it safe and if yes how should we administer Thanks Much
AMD, I'm wondering, given the seemingly miraculous benefits of taking DMSO for any of a myriad existing conditions, is there a daily dosage the might be internally consumed prophylactically as a catch-all prevention, as it were, against diseases in general?
Can DMSO taken orally help reduce already-present carotid arterial plaque? If so, at what dose? For those of us with familial hyperlipidemia (FH), high LDL and high lipoprotein A, is DMSO an effective treatment to counter development of arteriosclerosis? I am unable to find a doctor locally who knows what DMSO is, recognizes its therapeutic effect much less administer it intravenously.
I have the Waldo brand. It's 99.9% pharmacy grade. Interestingly, it doesn't have the garlic smell. I assume it's ok to use orally? I have a lot of vein issues and figured it's more systemic. Has anyone else had success with topical DMSO for veins? If so, how long before you noticed improvement? Thank in advance.
Not sure you’ll see this doc but any thing you have found on transverse myelitis? I know a young dad almost misdiagnosed, but that is the current dx and you know what the treatment for that is! just curious thanks.
New subscriber here...I am a senior citizen and have some trouble with the science etc...one of my sons has been diagnosed with ALS...could you expand a bit on possible protocols for him...? It appears that ALS is similar to MS and Parkinson...are the protocols the same? Please help...CjH
Thank YOU for this article. I have read before that DMSO should not be used if you have implants...I have a pace maker and my daughter has breast implants....What is your thoughts on this...
How to treat Raynaud's? I have read through the DMSO articles and have not been able to spot a protocol for cold hands and feet. Does anyone have a suggestion?
Sorry if this question sounds too basic - but if I have a nebulizer that holds 20 ml - and I have a DMSO 100% solution - how much DMSO do I put in it to achieve a 1% solution?
Greetings MWD! So, I wish I had asked you this question when you posted this article close to almost a yr ago already! Your articles are so incredibly amazing and excellent, Much needed!!! A I was looking through the past yr to find this article so I could ask a related question, I see all the articles I haven't yet read and all the ones I'd like to and hope to read! Meanwhile, not sure if you will even be responding to questions to this article now.
My question, a woman in my community that I've gotten to know a bit, she's totally not with a wholistic perspective, nevertheless, she has cervical cord myelomacia, could dmso offer healing & restoration for that kind of condition? I'm guessing at the very least, maybe alleviation from the pain?
Looking forward to your thoughts! Infinite appreciation!!!
I could not find anything about a form of dementia called Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) at this site. Some of its symptoms overlap with those of Alzheimer's. In my online search on behalf of a friend, I discovered that very little research has been done using DMSO. One in vitro study concluded that it would probably be unsafe, because it worsened the aggregation of nerve cells. However, and much more encouraging, an animal model with mice, did not reveal any injury to cells. In both studies nothing was committed in writing about DMSO's effectiveness, only that there was not enough found to allow the results to provide clinical guidance. Nevertheless, the authors of the animal study said that DMSO could be used "under supervision." Can anyone reading this provide details about how DMSO might be used by the average reader for treating LBD?
Thank you so much for all your work on DMSO! It's amazing and so inspiring to read about all these possibilities for healing. I posted this question last week but can't find it to see if there was a response yet so I'm posting it again.
My husband has Parkinson's and first I am wondering whether there is any research with DMSO and Parkinson's and if so how one would use it for that. Then I wanted to know if it is safe to use DMSO along with his medications for his torn meniscus/arthritic knee that causes him pain. He also has neuropathy that I see people have had results with as well. We haven't tried it yet on him because we aren't sure about safety and possible reactions to his medications (Crexont -carbadopa/levadopa, and Ongentys)
I would also like to use DMSO on my osteoarthritis knee but I saw that it should not be used with other blood thinners. I am currently taking olive leaf extract that instructs for it not to be used with blood thinners also. So is it safe to use DMSO with olive leaf extract?
Thank you again so much for your generosity in sharing all this crucial hidden information.
I had a hard fall, bashing my knees with a soft tissue injury to my right knee and shin area, in December 2024. It healed reasonably well except for compartments of swelling on either side of the right upper shin which persisted until today.
This afternoon I applied 99.95% DMSO liquid to my right knee and shin. Within 30 minutes that ugly swelling began to subside! Now, two hours later, it looks almost normal! I plan to continue the DMSO application for a few more days or until the swelling is permanently resolved.
Thank you, AMD, for all of your research and your helpful outreach! Your efforts mean so much to health seekers. I’ve been a paid subscriber of yours for some time and am happy to support your work.
Hello Doc, can you tell us again the DMSO Brand that you recommend? I was purchasing one on Amazon for the last few years, that I really liked it was a blen of Aloe, Lavender and 70% DMSO (99% pure dmso) according to their label. The brand was called Arbo Trex, then one day I went to re-order a poof they were gone. I searched everywhere for them. There are many other Brands on Amazon. The latest one I ordered is by a Doctor but smells like toothpaste to me? I am considering making my own, so I know for sure what is in it.
I am an anesthesiologist in the Midwest and am really curious about how dmso could be used on my end. So many potential options... Period pain medicine (NMDA antagonist), intraop treatment for just about every surgical/hospital-based diagnosis, antibiosis effect, and so many more. In addition, could it be a preventative for postop-cognitive dysfunction? This is a condition similar to dementia, but time-limited to up to a year for symptoms. However, the elderly, addicts, and developmental delay are susceptible, and I've seen more than my fair share of head injuries, broken bones from falls, etc due to this and needing urgent or emergent care.
Would my IRB even let this happen? 😆
IDK, but when my current research starts to level off, I may look into this. All of my research has been "out of the box", centered around creating new things, devices, screenings, etc, that make life EASIER and SAFER for the Anesthesiologist and patient, not to make companies money. Stay tuned!
Thank you again, doctor! I LOVE learning all about the uses of DMSO.
I am a caregiver and have given so much hope to my clients for pain relief and recovery from serious injury using these recipes! It's such a game-changing medicine and still so affordable in comparison to even just pain pills alone. All from a liquid drawn from trees - feels like working REAL magic on the care clients who no longer cry out in their sleep ;)
It has been mentioned DMSO can slow or even reverse cirrhosis, but other than the anecdote about the alcoholics I can find nothing else. Do you have any knowledge of DMSO being used for PSC or PBC caused cirrhosis? A breakthrough for these conditions is greatly needed.
My daughter suffers from chronic pain due to endometriosis. She was diagnosed at age 13 and is now 22. She has had three laparoscopic surgeries to no avail. Her pain is all day every day and wakes her up at night. She moved to a downstairs bedroom at age 22 because the stairs increase her pain for 2-3 hours. Sometimes she can barely move. Pain doctors at Mayo in Rochester, UF in Gainesville, and UM in Miami have been useless. Accupuncture and pelvic floor therapy-useless. Are you aware of it being used to treat endometriosis pain? Do you have any dosing recommendations? I will fly her anywhere in country/world if there is someone with experience specific to endo pain. Please share any ideas you have because her life is nonexistent.
I read that DMSO could treat complex neurological disorders, as the article mentioned.
Can DMSO also treat Spinal Muscular Atrophy? Can DMSO help to relieve and recover the loss of motor neurons? My friend's 2-year-old son has SMA type 3. Thank you very much!
I take 70% DMSO/30% Pure organic aloe vera juice gel DMSO topically twice a day on my left foot and back for L5 sciatica injury recovery. I also use some on my left hand for minor tendon pain. I’ve been using it for three weeks and it works amazing for pain.
About how long does 70% topical DMSO it remain in the body and can 'influence' the affect of a pharmaceutical? You mentioned a rat or mouse study where it clears the body within 24 hours - clears in the urine.
I’m 62, take no medicine, and physically very active with low body fat and good blood work. I eat a meat-based keto diet.
I have upcoming a CT Scan of kidney with iodine contrast. Can DMSO cause undesirable affects – to wit, DMSO enhances absorption of iodine contrast and that would be bad? Or would DMSO help? Should I stop taking DMSO for some time before the CT scan?
I have the same question about an upcoming MRI with gadolinium contrast?
I’ve done some research and so far haven’t been able to uncover any information about this except that at DMSO is very valuable to counteract the effects of radiation.
Can DMSO also intensify taking valium and the dosage should be potentially reduced? For the MRI, I get claustrophobic and sedation with valium helps a lot.
AMD, can you provide a stroke protocol my spouse suffered in ischemic stroke last month and I need help! I have a bottle of 99.99% MSO as well as a 70/30 topical gel I cannot seem to find a protocol just anecdotes from those who have used it. In your series.
I’ve been a monthly supporter since last year and am finally writing you with a couple questions.
I’m 61 had a craniotomy June 2021. They clipped an artery. Wish they had used DMSO I would have saved myself years of pain and would still be able to hear from my left ear.
I have a titanium clip from that.
And I had both stapes replaced (otosclerosis) in 2010/11 with plastic clips.
I also have a AAA and two not perfect valves. (MRI July 2023)
QUESTION: Can I use DMSO on my head and/or internally with internal plastic prosthetics/clips? I have had many mri’s with them but don’t know how DMSO reacts with them.
Also, I have had hemorrhoids since giving birth, but they did not bother me until menopause. DMSO has helped, and I’d like to take a little internally. I’d also like to rub it on my heart and where they cut my skull.
I WANT YOU TO KNOW that the dmso I got from Amazon (Woldo health 99% pharma grade) works much better than Jacob Lab 70%. I diluted both accordingly. I found that interesting and thought you might too.
Lastly, if you know of anyone that could help me I would appreciate very much a recommendation.
I’ve seen 3 cardiologists, Dr Peter McCullough being one of them. But need someone who knows about hormones and dmso and genetics.
I’m very health conscious/aware just need someone who can really help me.
Hi, I have an amyloid angiopathy due to the pfizer shots. And I am currently undergoing a normobaric oxygen therapy to heal my endothelial barrier that has been badly damaged by the NL particles of the vaccine going into the bloodstream.
I usually have to take low dose nattokinase when I can see that the fibrin is getting a bit too stacked, especially in my brain, but Ive seen that removing it too soon create an inflammation of the brain blood barrier, and lot of neurological symptoms associated with degenerative diseases, and also so that it cuts down like a molecular cissor the fibrin in small pieces, and those pieces go relocate into other areas of my body, which can cause dangerous issues like strokes.
I am also in this dire situation where if I take nattokinase, for a specifc area, I have to encurr the risk of removing the fibrin/bandaid in another area that isn't yet healed.
I was thus researching something that would be a bit more gentle than the nattokinase, but also localized and wouldnt release big amounts of fibrin into the bloodstream at once,
thus I am wondering if DMSO could be a bit better in this case...
could it theoretically help with the holes in the capillaries caused by the vaccine, and also dissolve a bit better the fibrin if taken topically on the head for example ? as ive seen it was implied that it could be used to help with hemorragic strokes, i guess that it won't make holes in the endothelum worse but actually help them heal ? tell me what do you think of it. thanks
Looks like this article is heading towards a year old, so I'm not sure if anyone is interested, but I recently started oral DMSO. I weighed 3.5g of it, which happens to be right around 4 droppers full and 10 drops using a 2oz amber dropper bottle. I've been using 4 squirts twice a day. One thing that I noticed is a huge drop in my blood pressure which was getting pretty bad. I had already quit taking prescription meds for BP years ago and it wasn't getting any better despite changes in diet, exercise and weight.
4 squirts in about 12-16 oz of water, doesn't taste great but I've had worse tasting things in my mouth before. I found that, if I want to do a mouthwash, I can put 3.5g (which is coincidentally about 3.2ml) into a small flask with 30ml of water. I can swish that around and again, not a fan of the taste, but it's not really that bad.
For whatever reason, I don't seem to urinate any more frequently. And, lastly, I have already been using 100% DMSO on acne and skin problems. It doesn't really burn on my face, hands, or arms, but does sting a bit on my torso. That has worked better than any acne or other medications for cuts or burns that I've ever tried.
I hope you are reading this, Midwestern Doctor, because I could not find your recommendation for how to use DMSO to treat dementia (or oncoming dementia). Where would we apply it topically? I don't believe I could give an injection without strenuous pushback.
Today, as I begin learning about DMSO, I've also run across a video about applying essential oils in the navel. Now I wonder whether this might be a good means of delivering DMSO for systemic conditions such as high blood pressure. Or would just taking it orally be better?
Thank you sooo much for your time, effort and honesty in posting these DMSO articles. Do you have a link where all of them (hopefully in posting order) are available?
Thank you once again! I have copied what I could find of the articles. According to your list, I have evidently missed one. I'll check and see.
Also, looking over your site, I find your assessment of choosing who to follow is exactly what I do as well. There are sooo many good and well informed posters to follow and sooo little time to absorb. One more time, thank you, Ma'am! -Donnie
My friend had a hemorrhagic stroke on March 11 this year. He only just told me. He is aged late 40s. He has regained some function. He was very fit prior to this, but did have obstructive sleep apnea. The hospital have him on a number of meds, including for blood pressure. Can he use DMSO while on these meds? Your feedback, MWD, would be hugely appreciated.
This is a wonderful series of articles and guidance for DMSO use! I sure wish you would put it all in a little book! I'd love to have the book instead of trying to print it all out! Thanks for these great DMSO articles!
My wife is allergic to wasps and we were at a beach in Türkiye and she sat down on a wasp and got stung. We call an ambulance and I ran back to the house to get my MMS and DMSO and applied it to the sting. She was just about go unconscious. By the time the ambulance arrived she was feeling almost back to normal. The I told the paramedics what I did and they didn't know what I was talking about but they said they wouldn't have been able to save her life as there is no antidote for wasp stings.
The first joint on both my index and pinky finger have "hard balls" [of bone??] and at times they hurt. What is that and will DMSO help? I am 63, and am my 80 yr old mother's 24/7 caregiver. I have some DMSO for her as a stroke victim, but her stroke was last May and she has been non verbal since. I hope it even helps her a little. Being paralyzed on her right side really sucks
We have a child who was diagnosed with a syrinx on her spine. She had the surgery 2 years ago. She has been having symptoms of it again. Oddly enough also, at the incision site on her spine, the scar looks as if it has pulled apart…not sure how to describe it…there’s a “well,” if you will, at the spot now. I have started using DMSO 70% from Jacoblab.com. We may have some connective tissue disorders in the family. We’ll see how DMSO works.
Thank you so much for these informative articles on DMSO! Are there doctors in MD, PA, or nationwide who treat bulbar onset ALS with IV DMSO? My friend’s mother has been given 6 months to live and is rapidly declining. If not, would oral use provide any benefits?
Thank you, Doctor, for your selfless commitment of so much time to dispersing free knowledge to the world, knowing that, rather than praise from the medical community, you might inherit severe persecution, as other doctors have. In this action there are surely countless of people who will find true healing and perhaps continued life, because of your efforts, courage and care for your fellow man. There is a lot to digest, in your articles, some of it quite technical for the untrained person, but the message is clear and the dosages usable by anyone.
Is there a recommended method of applying to the skin? The book I read made everything suspect (i.e cotton balls and napkins could have chemicals) besides spraying it on but this isn't always possible.
What is the DMSO protocol for stroke victims? My husband is 86 years old and all of his siblings have died from strokes. I would like to know how much DMSO to immediately give him if he has a stroke as well as the DMSO protocol for stroke recovery.
My mum had a stroke 2.5 years ago and she would like to try DMSO. Where do we start for her to try this? Should she apply it topically or take it internally and how much should she apply/take? She is sensitive to medication and is on Amlodipine (with bad side effects so that's our next project after DMSO). Are there interactions with medication and DMSO?
Thank you for this! Am going to try this for varicose veins/chronic venous insufficiency in my ankles and feet. Any chance you will do an article on methylene blue soon?
A lot of other people have already written about it so I was going to wait on that. I have 100s I need to write, so I'm trying to prioritize the things not being discussed by others.
I had a TIA while at work in 2019 at age 48, was hospitalized for 3 days and only missed 2 days work because of a weekend. In the years since I have had the frustration of failing memory in my job, and concerned if age or the TIA was the cause or rather the SARS-Cov2. Though I did become quite ill for 3 to 4 days after traveling to a trade show in February 2020 prior to widespread news of the pandemic, I have never tested positive for Sars-Cov2 or had any of the vaccines.
I received a JAMA newsletter today with details of a study about the TIA topic.
After having read your articles, and sharing with my younger brother who had a paralyzing stroke 12 months ago. We are both discussing a regimen of DMSO to get our life back. I have recently started with a warm water foot soak with DMSO I purchased from a farm supply store via Shop.app, and plan to include oral use, though the odor and taste seem hard to stomach. I hope to report more information in a few months.
Hello, I am looking for veterinary help regarding DMSO and goats.
I have a 12-13 year old goat who experienced thiamine deficiency related paralysis on four or five separate occasions over the past 5-7 years (usually changes to food sources during seasonal change. Unfortunately, I didn’t track those episodes well.
On all occasions aside from the last in late November of 2024 after multivitamin and concentrated thiamine injections he recovered from the paralysis, albeit with changes to his gait.
I had purchased DMSO in October for personal use and had made dilutions of 30% and 70%. I decided to look into using DMSO for my goat when he had gone a week without being able to stand up on his hind legs.
This article suggested that humans with spinal injuries were given subcutaneous DMSO and I decided to utilise the same method. I combined the 70% solution with liquid thiamine and injected it near the location of the spine at which the paralysis seemed to be occurring. Within a half hour of the first 1.5cc dose my goat tried to stand up using his hind legs to push up.
I gave a dose of 1-1.5cc of 70%DMSO SC 3x/day for a few weeks seeing the improvement daily, first building strength to stand for lengths of time with aid to stand and then being able to stand up on his own but needing help to lay back down.
After a few weeks I tapered the injects to 2x/day with no deterioration in ability and then a couple of weeks later to 1x/day. After a couple of weeks I am now seeing a little bit of weakness in the hind legs again and think I may need to increase the dosage again. I could use some guidance however.
I’d appreciate feedback from the veterinary community. With thanks,
Are there any therapists near Frederick MD who are knowledgeable about the dosing and simultaneous use of DMSO along with chlorine dioxide or other non-pharma protocols?
Question - to take orally, 3.5 gm of 20% mixture. No one I know uses grams when cooking in their home. What do3s that equate to for the avg homeowner? I've tried using online calculators and get different results.
My Midwestern Doctor... might you be able to direct me to more info on DMSO & squamous cell carcinoma? Also, are there REALLY Dr's out there who would consider the use of DMSO, & if so... how do I begin to search for one? Any direction or assistance is GREATLY appreciated. Thank you for all of your knowledge & your desire to share this & so much more.
I have a 13 yr old Belgian Tervuren who had his first seizure in November and the second on New Years Day 2025. Our vet thinks it may be due to a brain tumor- not certain because we can’t afford to do an MRI. Our dog has also smacked his head hard in two different incidents about 2 months ago. I am considering DMSO using whatever delivery system is deemed the most efficacious. I used to give my horse shots in the muscle years ago and figure I can learn to do an IM shot again. I need to figure out the dosage for a 55 lb dog. Also, the ratio of DMSO . Currently,I have 99.9% pure DMSO as well as a formula that has 70% DMSO to 30% Aloe Vera.
Dear Midwestern Doctor, I started to read your articles, and I find them very interesting and useful. I have an autoimmune disorder Hashimoto. I was diagnosed 9 months ago. I don't want to take any man made drugs. Does DMSO helps with problems of the thyroid? I would love your help with this. Thank you.
The bottle of DMSO I bought states it's 99.9% pure but it doesn't state how many grams per ML or teaspoonful. The oral recommendation in this article states to start with 3.5g mixed in water. How many ML is that in an 8oz bottle that is 99.9% pure?.
How does DMSO do anything on its own, either topically or via IV? In the case of the stroke patient, how does mere DMSO (which to my understanding is a solvent) do anything for the stroke on its own? Is it entering the body and dissolving clots?
I have started using DMSO and I’m experiencing the one side effect mentioned here which is the odour. AMD mentions taking chlorine dioxide along with DMSO to eliminate this side effect. Does anyone have dosing recommendations for the chlorine dioxide? And maybe a source of good quality safe product?
To me, one measure of the worth of an article is how often do you return to it as a reference. I refer to the articles in this series a lot! I'm back now due to a health problem that occurred a couple of days ago. I passed out on an airplane, was taken to an ER, and have a somewhat ambiguous diagnosis. An EKG revealed a right bundle branch block. They think I may have a pulmonary embolism. I'm home now and will certainly follow up with my pulmonologist, but I am wondering if there is some way DMSO can positively affect the situation. (As I've indicated in numerous other comments, I'm using it topically to treat several unrelated things.) Am I on to something with this?
How much DMSO liquid should one take if one suspects one is having a stroke and one is alone in a rural area? You say you have all your relatives have it on hand. Please state a potential safe dosage for this eventuality.
Thank you for answering my question. Since I posted it I’ve read a lot more of your essays and found the answer to my questions. I’ve read some of your things more than once in an effort to understand the nuances and pass your information on to others who can definitely benefit from it. A person or two has even chimed in on an anecdote like the woman who avoided a complicated eye surgery to fix (ill let her explain it, “Geraldine Fuhr May I use it for 4 years in the eyes together with CDS (Andreas Kalcker) . It prevented me of doing a very risky and complex surgery . I have a membrane covering one eye. The membrane was due to the use of cortisone shots.”
Thank you for all you have done and continue to do!
once again thanks for all of this. My husband is recovering from an ischemic stroke in his carotid artery - they went in through his groin up the artery and removed clots and put in a medicated stint. he is recovering well but has lost words and spelling. I am a big believer in dmso but am at a loss as to how it will react to the drugs he is on? right now we are stuck at the hospital where he is being given brilinta, aspirin a statin and anti seizure as he seized while having the stroke.
I plan to get him of the statin and anti seizure med asap, (he will go to inpatient rehab so i might have to wait until after that) as I have herbs that can support and repair vessel health. however the stint slow releases a brilinta type medicine and his doctor will want him on the brilinta for at least 3 months. I am worried about drug interactions and dosing.....
Do you have any info re drug interactions? right now Im defaulting to just waiting 3 months and then replacing the brilinta with dmso but its kind of killing me to think I might be missing an opportunity to aid in his full recovery...
My father unfortunately had a severe stroke a few months ago, since then he has slowly started to recover but is still a long way off where he once was. I've just found out about DMSO and I'm going to start administering a solution soon. I was just wondering about the topical application, once I have made a solution how much should I apply? Is it just a case of wiping the area once with the solution or is there a certain amount needed?
Can you take DMSO if you take other medication. It’s mentioned that you should avoid, but I don’t know too many people in the United States that are not on some medication one or another.
My husband, a former dentist, suffers from essential (non Parkinsonian) tremor and chronic hypertension, but is otherwise completely healthy. Following the standard of care path, he has had 2 DBS procedures, both unsuccessful. I am desperately seeking some alternative that would address this tremor, and/or its source. Effective treatment is nonexistent unless you want to undergo major neurosurgery, which, in our case, was not helpful and possibly detrimental. I am interested in DMSO as a possible treatment for him…..does anyone have any experience or information regarding its use in the area of motor function impairment/ tremor? I am so heartened by this resource, A Midwestern Doc!
I live in the Midwest and have trouble locating practioners the have a holistic, open minded approach. Thank you so much for your comprehensive research and your amazing efforts to share your experience and knowledge!!
I have a two-year-old daughter with Down Syndrome who is quite advanced and functional for her age. She is able to crawl, stand, and has a strong grip.
I’ve started giving her DMSO mixed with juice before bedtime twice a week. (I’d like to increase the frequency, but my wife finds the smell difficult to manage.)
I’ve been considering combining it with Acetyl Glutamine, but I haven’t been able to find any kosher options at my local drugstore. I do have plain Glutamine capsules, but each contains a large dose of about 500 mg. Would this amount be appropriate to mix with her juice and DMSO?
I have put DMSO on her scalp and letting her ingest it 2x a day with juice (1 teaspoon), it has been a week, I have not seen any change. According to your article, there are results within days. She had an ischemic stroke that left her whole right side paralyzed and non verbal on Nov 22,2023. She then had brain hemorrhage with same area (left brain cerebral clot) on January 14, 3 weeks after her discharged from eliquis (blood thinner). Please advise as this DMSO protocol has worked wonders on patients with +5 years post stroke. Can you advise what to do different?
I don't know how helpful this is, but I just saw your comment and thought I would share my own experience. I'm the caregiver for an ischemic stroke survivor. He and I both believe we are seeing improvement due to topical DMSO treatments. We started out using a full tablespoon (twice weekly) applied all over the patient's head (including temples) as well as the spine and the neck (focusing on the front of the neck where the carotid arteries are. The doc mentions in the full article (behind the paywall) that the carotids are a key for topical application because they feed the brain. He also mentions that the stroke protocol ideally involves DMSO by IV. That isn't an option for my patient which is why we do it topically. I wish you and your patient all the best.
So sorry to hear about your Mom. I would be very curious (as I'm sure would others) to know if you eventually observe any change from using DMSO. The biggest (and most consistent) change we've seen is that the patient went from only being able to eat very small portions (due to impaired swallow function) to eating full meals. His appetite and sense of taste also returned. His speech is still very much up and down depending on whether it's a good day or a bad one, but I'm fairly confident that it has improved overall since starting the DMSO. As for dilution, we started out doing straight DMSO topically since the patient doesn't seem to have any skin irritation from it. But we always followed it with magnesium oil as that was advised on another website. Ultimately we switched to mixing DMSO with the magnesium oil so that it comes out to 75% DMSO -- 3 tsp DMSO with 1 tsp magnesium. I haven't read the IV information very closely because that's not an option for us. If you're reading the comments here, doesn't that mean you've paid the $7 subscription fee? That should allow you to read the doctor's specific dosing info, including about IV administration (scroll to the bottom of the article to see it.) I hope you and your Mom can get some relief.
I wish the article clearly outline how to apply it but it’s all case studies with guesstimate applications for specific individuals. I’ve re-read it 6 times, I only see scalp, oral ingestion and IV at 5% dilluted with saline but more effective with a chemical I cannot find.
Here's what the doc said about applying it to the neck (addressing the carotids)
"My somewhat unique approach (which seems to work but I simply don’t have enough data on) is to apply DMSO topically to the artery that feeds the area of the stroke.
Most commonly this is either the left or right carotid (the major artery you can feel on the front of your neck). In most cases, strokes in the arteries the carotids feed (e.g., the MCA) tend to affect the opposite side of the body. So if there is a right sided facial droop or numbness and weakness on the right side, that tells me there is an issue in the left MCA, and DMSO needs to be applied to the L. carotid artery. If possible when applying DMSO, I also have the person lie down so that when applying DMSO the gravity will pull it to the artery below, but that is often not practical (and I am still not sure how much it matters).
Additionally, strokes can often occur in other parts of the brain (e.g., those fed by a vertebral artery), so exactly which artery I tell them to prioritize depends on the situation. That said, applying it anywhere on the skin will still get it into the body, and I often also instruct people to apply it to both carotids."
I would appreciate knowing if there is a protocol for a stroke that has affected the vestibular system.
My sister had a cerebral stroke October, 2023 and after a year of various kinds of therapy, still has balance and dizzy/woozie issues but no other remnants of the stroke. Consequently, she is afraid to get out of her wheelchair except to use her upright walker for fear of falling. She is 79 years old, diabetic, but otherwise healthy.
Would you please comment on the following disturbing research paper that seems to reveal the dark side of DMSO? Here is the link: doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0107447. The authors' conclusion is that DMSO damages mitochondrial integrity, that is, messes up its functionality. It is an old paper going back about 10 years whose study target was cultured astrocytes.
"Note: in one study of rats, radio-labeled DMSO was found to enter all tissues of the body within 30 minutes (with the highest levels seen in the plasma, kidney, spleen, lung, heart, and testes and the lowest in the lens of the eye), with DMSO levels declining to minimal levels after 24 hours, while another study found orally administered DMSO reached a peak blood level in 4 hours and was undetectable after 120 hours, while MSM appeared in the blood after 48 hours and disappeared after 400 hours (with another human study finding similar results)."
AMD- THANK YOU for your wonderful articles on DMSO (and many other topics). I became a subscriber because I have been so impressed.
I hope you can answer a few questions.
1. I had a hemorrhagic stroke in my cerebellum in 2018. (AVM and aneurysm) Craniotomy performed, subsequent hydrocephalus developed, and VP shunt placed. I wish I had known about DMSO then! I had bad vestibular issues (Imbalance, dizziness, vertigo and nausea/vomiting). I still have some mild vestibular issues after 6 years but am mostly recovered. Is there any benefit to using DMSO for this issue at this point? Topically? Orally?
I use it topically (full strength from DMSO store) for very painful hand arthritis (with only a little benefit). I am considering taking it internally for this and other arthritic and musculoskeletal pains. Do you think internally would have more benefit for chronic arthritis?
I found an Neuropath that does DMSO IV! Where can I find your recommendations/research on dosing for IV? I want to do some research myself before I see what he offers. You have so many wonderful articles but not sure if this is in one of them.
Thank you for all the information. I purchased the red labeled bottle referenced in the article. How do you figure out the dosing for oral use. I see the reference in the article to dilute to a 20% solution. Then there is the reference to 3.5gms daily or 0.5 -1g/kg. How do you calculate these dosages based on the bottle being 70%DMSO/30%distilled water. In an 8oz bottle.
For post-stroke recovery for my husband, I have 70% gel from Jacob Lab. What are your suggestions for how much to apply and how long to keep it on? The lab said to wipe it off after 5 minutes because the gel does not absorb into the body. Five minutes seems a short time.
What could you benefit from taking dmso orally prophylacticly? What dose and interval would this be? Would it lower BP or improve cholesterol? Improve metabolism or reduce cancer risk. Improve cardiovascular health?
I'm almost 70, and have been reacquainted** with DMSO for about 3 months. I purchased some 70% gel in aloe vera, and some 99.998% liquid. I'll be very interested to see your upcoming protocols for use. I've purchased several books on DMSO, and all are sorely lacking in telling you how to use what form for what condition. Lots of accolades and testimonials, but not a lot of use to me. I originally got it in hope of treating peripheral neuropathy of my arm and hand. (I had an EMG a few years ago, and it revealed some impingement at the inner elbow, as well as some mild carpal tunnel.) I've lost about 50% of the feeling and dexterity in my dominant hand. I can barely write, and can no longer play my guitar. (Some would argue that I couldn't play when healthy, but that's another discussion!) I've been using the 70% topically 2-3 times daily for about 2 months, and haven't noticed much improvement. Am I using this correctly? (**My Mom got very enthused about DMSO back in the 1970's. I believed the mainstream "debunking" and dismissed it until recently.) Let me add my sincere thanks to you for this terrific Substack!
Thanks for the reply! It already had occurred to me that I may not respond, given how long the condition has persisted. My wife is urging me not to give up, but to give it sufficient time. I agree with her, and will switch to applying the full strength liquid for the remainder of this "trial." What quantity/strength liquid (presumably in water?) do you recommend, and how often?
I just joined because I saw this on X. Your work is amazing. Is it safe to use DMSO if taking a daily low dose aspirin due to heart attack & stents 5 years ago or will it increase the anticoagulant effect of the aspirin? Also, can it safely be used to replace the daily aspirin? If so, what dosage and would it be oral or topical?
I can't give you a good answer to that. In the most recent post I wrote about the contradindications with anticoagulants (what's known) and in here I cited a study where it was used to prevent clotting in a stent. My *opinion* is that you don't have a bleeding risk with low dose aspirin, but I don't have enough data to say that with confidence. In terms of replacing anticoagulants, the data isn't there to say if it does or does not function as an effective replacement (although I could see a variety of reasons why it could).
You have done a great service! Reading this I couldn't help but wondering how it would have helped my father who suffered from a stroke and died 5 months later. Do you think this would help my chronic migraines? I have moderate headaches but can have severe dizziness, nausea and aura. I imagine it's worth a try!
Thank you, It just seem that if her autism is a result of childhood vaccinations, etc., and studies show how it help those from the Covid-19 shots that it might help others from all vaccination injuries.
Yes but that likely won't be ready by the time you need it and I can't soundbite it in a comment. Some of it can be found in Morton Walker's book DMSO Nature's Healer.
I will write more about that in a later article. There are a lot of approaches, all of which somewhat work. You can also time DMSO use so that the odor is not present during the night.
Normally we use heart peptides and then stem cells (and amino acids) for that (which is a fairly complex process), but I could see DMSO working too; just have never tried it.
There isn't any besides what I wrote here. I found a passing reference to someone else using it in that way, and one of my mentors taught me that application earlier in my career. It's basically just if you use IV DMSO, it stops the progression of ALS.
Hey Doc, there’s this gal on s-stack who says this hype over dmso is dangerous. It is an industrial waste. Similar to fluoride, a waste product put to use. A solvent we rub on our body or ingest. Similar stackers are calling out the vitamin industry as toxic chemical pushers. As well as the novel discovery of old drugs as treatment for cancers, c19, etc…
So, in a sense we see: allopathic medicine pushing drugs when alternative measures would seemingly help (vitamins, herbs, etc..) with trad. docs stating, all poppycock! Then we have alt docs condemning drugs, many, like statins, saying they are dangerous, merely cash cows. Offering instead, vitamins, other supplements to help out. Next, we have stackers calling out the alt docs and their treatments, ie, Vit D, dmso, b vitamins. Stating chemical killers.
My inclination is to believe that those calling out the alt methods were put in place by big pharma or other so as to confuse the consumer, it’s working, I might add. However, My understanding is that big Pharma has bought many vitamin/supplement companies. What might that mean?
But… and it’s a big one, when the public realized all these prescription meds were toxic/cash cows, they turned to other avenues. Did pharma anticipate this turning away?
Any thoughts welcome. A tangled web. I enjoy your writing.
For an old spinal cord injury C3-5 would DMSO be applied on the scar? Might it reduce spasticity? A friend has had multiple cervical surgeries and relies heavily on opioids for pain management. How would she start using DMSO?
As far as topical application, if I wanted to apply it to an area of eczema after showering in am prior to work, how long should I leave it on before dressing? I’ve been trying the gel. It gets sticky so I have to wash off before dressing. Would the liquid work differently, better?
Great article. I enjoy all your articles and I'm glad I subscribed. Can DMSO help improve circulation to the optic nerve? I started taking 1/2 teaspoon in coffee in the morning.
PLEASE, HELP!!!! Will DMSO affect the absorption of Ivermectin and FenBen for cancer treatment? My brother is in terrible pain, and I want to offer DMSO if I'm confident that it won't negatively affect his cancer fighting protocol.
Great question. I should have gone thru All comments - I asked a few questions along these lines. Have to research it. I am taking it with fenben, but only a teaspoon or less 444mg FBen
My sister had a stroke 2 1/2 months ago. Left carotid artery was blocked. She is in a rehabilitation facility, making very slow progress. Still paralyzed on her right side and unable to speak. Would DMSO help at this stage, and how much?
Wow, still making my way through this article, but thank you so much for your work on this. What caught my eye and got me to subscribe is the mention of DMSO for Down Syndrome--my 48-yr old sister has DS and I was shocked that something could actually help. I told my mother about this, and she was shocked as well because when my sister was born, she asked around about anything that could help and was always told no. I'm assuming it would be too late for my sister (high functioning DS).
Thanks for another great article. Do you think DMSO could cure my Morton’s Neuroma? I’ve tried steroid shots to no avail and will avoid surgery unless it becomes too painful to walk
I questioned on the other article about it. I am having barely any side effects using 95 percent even on face and was wondering if it was normal. My wife did have an itchy neck at 50 percent. It seems to be working for me ....this morning my neck cracked a lot and it feels looser.
I took some orally last night and this morning and don't seem garlicky. I feel good so I guess it's okay?
Just seems weird and I am part ginger.
Let me know how it is for you? I just ordered for quick shipping.
1) It happens at a fairly high concentration (which I explained here).
2) Hemolysis is a common issue with intravenous integrative therapies and predominantly affects the weakest blood cells (that often will be eliminated anyways).
I know you worked incredibly hard on this piece, but I couldn’t get through it. The animal studies were too horrific for me to handle. I left microbiology due to squeamish reactions to hurting innocent critters. Later in life I cared for and helped others care for their pets — especially bunnies. I know you share my concerns and are compassionate, so you do understand my inability to read further about important lifesaving DMSO treatment.
I hope you can eventually write a summary explaining that very sad animal studies led to research showing the great benefits of DMSO, linking to your in-depth article, then providing a list of symptoms/ conditions for which DMSO works and suggested methods of administration. This suggestion may be too difficult to implement, and I truly understand how it would be. But I couldn’t help asking.
The animal studies need to be listed. Otherwise people will insist they have to be done again before DMSO can be used on humans. When the abridged one is written I'll be sure to send it to you!
I understand about the animal studies. Oddly, the same folks who insist on animal studies seem to have no problem injecting humans with untested, unproven, experimental drugs, vaccines, and other substances of dubious nature.
Thank you so much for your attention to detail and your impeccable integrity. I look forward to the abridged article. I share your work widely.
The book “Healing with DSMO” says not to drink alcohol while using DSMO. Yet the author on talks about lethal doses of each. Doc, your opinion for moderate drinker of red wine?
I am so excited I happened across this. Thank you so so very much. I am reading it my third time. Just so much amazing info.
My sister is labeled under the autism spectrum; the disability she acquired from childhood immunizations in the 1970s. Can her brain be unlocked? As I have read about the zeta potential, sludging of fluids in the body, and DMSO, I have hope! I was wondering about soaking her feet in DMSO/water solution??? Would adding magnesium flakes be beneficial??
I have so far only found one study which reported it helped autism, but it was very old and probably not applicable to now. No one I know presently has used DMSO for autism, so I truthfully can't say.
In 1983 my brother was in horrible car accident in northern Wisconsin. He was flown to Froedtert Hospital to operate on his skull and brain. After he was let out the hospital after many weeks, the doc gave him a jar of white cream with silver. This healed my brother’s incisions and patches miraculously along with sunlight. I even used it for my sports abrasions. I am wondering if this cream contained DSMO.
I wish I had time to read this several more times. The basic takeaway is that it helps restore nervous system problems or helps nerves and tissue grow.
The anecdote about the dentist’s Down syndrome patient fascinates me. …the improvement in cranial bone growth and shape. Seems like dmso is optimizing flow…blood, maybe cerebrospinal fluid. And this improved flow is removing situations that are thwarting growth.
Excited to know if it can cure vaccine injuries, which are all nerve damage imo. Maybe it goes back to zeta potential at its root. Don’t understand enough to conceptualize correctly. I’m excited to know if it can help those with years of wear from sleep apnea…after all, sleep apnea causes high blood pressure right?
I don’t understand the dosage instructions for oral. For topical, how much should be applied at one time for an area? How many times per day? Sounds like people are spraying it on or using a dropper and then rubbing in?
The burn recovery…also fascinating. A friend used beta-glucan product made from oats…manufactured in St. Paul, Mn…on his face burns, but not on arms or ankles. No scars in his face but scars left on arms and ankles. I wonder if dmso can get same results. Sounds like it!
We have a roll-on tube (70% dmso, 30% aloe) for applying topically. I’ve been putting drops 99% pure in a glass of water in the am and seeing how my stomach feels, then increasing as I can tolerate it next day. My wife applies 99% pure to her feet toes ankles 3 times a day. Hope this helps.
Well I wish I’d read this on march 7 because on march 8th I had an ischemic stroke, 40 miles off coast of Florida. Logistical nightmare trying to get to a hospital quickly. This is exciting to say the least. I want everything DMSO can do for me now, every improvement is huge. Can I see you? Where are you? I’m in Minneapolis, are there any like minded doctors here you’re aware of? You can email me at maaktwo@gmail.com or dm and I can give phone. Thank you! Jon
For substances with density near 1 (like water or DMSO), you can treat gram, cc, and mL as equivalent. If you are using a solution of 70% DMSO, then 1 cc (the same as 1 mL) will have approximately 0.7 gram DMSO.
I have osteoarthritis that affects most joints. I had 3 heart stents placed in 2021 and am on Plavix daily. Can DMSO be taken concurrently with Plavix, or is it contraindicated due to its effects on platelets? Thank you!
I doubt that you'll see this, and maybe you won't care, but after you posted this article, there is someone named Geoff Pain PHD who is bad-mouthing you and DMSO here on substack.
"I've been following Geoff for a while now in spite of the fact that he's occasionally taken these sorts of potshots at people. This one is particularly egregious and cowardly however, as 1. he has no qualms about commenting on other peoples posts, so I don't know why he doesn't do so here to initiate a potentially illuminating dialogue, and 2. he put his article behind a paywall so people can't respond to get a public dialogue going there.
Regardless of what happens here, given the numerous deaths under "mysterious circumstances" of people who've stepped on the toes of pharma and mainstream medicine, this call to "unmask" you is vile and reprehensible."
My reply was:
1) I feel its a bit premature for him to write that before the rest of this series comes out as many of the points he's mentioning will be addressed.
2) I read through the FAERS reports in the process of writing all of this. He did not interpret or depict them correctly.
3) The fact that he used a sensationalistic headline and then paywalled the rest of the article suggests his motivation was to make money not empower people or have the crucial information that could "protect people from being killed by DMSO" be known.
4) People like that are a fact of life, but it's still sad they don't consider the harm they create by pushing people away from things that can really help people.
in the event you may have run across this… any idea how to find out how to ingest these caffeic-acid-based quantum dots that seem to address neurodegenerative diseases and are DIY from baking coffee grounds?
There are a few studies on this (e.g., this one shows DMSO helps https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7615238/) but I didn't cover it because it hasn't been a major focus of DMSO research. I could see why it would help (and some of the reports I read suggested it had in cases) but I don't know enough on this subject, so I didn't want to present theories I could not back up.
I ran into the behavior analyst Chase Hughes' video and how he's cured and reversed his degenerative brain disease using high doses melatonin and methylene blue. That video on it is on his YouTube channel. He talks about the science and the doctor who helped him, who also is on podcasts Hope this helps.
My adult son had 3 epileptic seizures on Tuesday due to a covid infection although his epilepsy was well controlled. How does DMSO help epilepsy? Does it raise the seizure threshold? Another son has high functioning autism with OCD. Would he need to wean off his antidepressants to try DMSO to treat the OCD? Any benefits for autism? Lastly, can prion disease be treated with DMSO? No other treatments exist for this fatal disease. Thank you for this informative paper.
There are a few studies on this (e.g., this one shows DMSO helps https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7615238/) but I didn't cover it because it hasn't been a major focus of DMSO research. I could see why it would help (and some of the reports I read suggested it had in cases) but I don't know enough on this subject, so I didn't want to present theories I could not back up.
Thank you very much. My husband has idiopathic peripheral neuropathy in both hands and both feet. (Well, the docs say it’s idiopathic, but odd that it all started soon after he contracted multiple tick diseases!). We’ve tried all the AMA meds and creams plus the Lyme tinctures, infrared sauna, etc. The only thing that has remotely helped is rubbing in black sesame seed oil. Is DMSO something he could try? I don’t understand application. Do you just put a small dab on the skin and let it absorb throughout the body?
I looked up contraindications and saw sedatives on the list. He does take those at night to sleep. I assume we would apply the DMSO in the morning?
Finally, what is the safest application to be sure you are not allergic? I would assume it would be application on the skin in a very small amount.
I am a big fan of DMSO. I had some keratotic lesions on my face that were growing. One on the cheek and one on the forehead. The one on the cheek became larger than a dime, and the one on my forehead was close to that size. I was going to see a dermatologist for removal, but had the idea to try DMSO first. I started with 70/30. No effect. I went to 100% DMSO and the lesions were completely gone in 4 months of daily treatment up to 6 times a day of topical application. I applied the dropper directly to the lesions with just enough DMSO to cover them without running down my face. I am careful not to use 100% DMSO except for tough lesions. The skin irritation can be profound, but does resolve quickly by discontinuing use. I also drink 7 drops a day in my morning water and I have noticed less night time waking for urination. I am 64, so this is an issue for many of us. Wonderful stuff! Glad you are making more people aware of DMSO. I use the one in your picture on the right. Most people have no idea how this product can benefit them. Many will never break the programming of our horrible illness care system. I read many of your writings, and I appreciate your approach to health. Blessings.
I have a section in this series on DMSO for dental issues.
I’m looking forward to this as I have issues difficult to manage. I use DMSO and cloves which is helpful. I’m also now rinsing and holding 70/30, distilled water which is not effective enough. I can’t find any info on the mixing of DMSO/ Peroxide which would great if safe.
My dental/gum issues resolved when I went on a carnivore diet back in February.
I, with many of my patients as reported, returned to eating healthy, free-range meats, dairy and eggs which we grow ourselves after years of veganism and other diets...And, we too returned to health and even experienced CRAVING all upon returning to consuming them.
It was as though our bodies had been starving.
Amazing...How so many of us were indoctrinated and brainwashed for so many years of our lives.
Glad to read about your issues to have resolved.
How can I become a patient of yours? Or, find a doctor like you in Florida? I'll be 70 next month and seriously seeking your type healthcare for this late phase of life. Im recently widowed and would like to "live" again with a bit more vitality than I have, for whatever time I have left. 🥰🙏
I've been very healthy through life. I just now begun high blood pressure meds in June and take lowest dose thyroid med. That's it. I'm considered pre-diabetic for last 4-5 years. Sleep is an issue. (I just finished your GHB article!) Heart disease and stroke are fatal on both sides of my family.
May I ask how much water you put your 7 DMSO drops in? 8 oz? Thx!
Yes, I would like a better explanation of the water to DMSO ratio also. I have no way of measuring ML, grams, etc.
This is an older article so this question may not get many eyes - still, nowhere else to put it. I previously thought that a D-dimer test would show if there is micro-clotting, but have read that the clots from the shot do not break down enough to show up on such a test. Three questions please: other than live blood analysis (if that does show the clots) how would one know that they are in the body? How to break them down (is Nattokinase effective)? And will applying DMSO to the carotids still work for someone who has a stroke from a spiked clot? Thank you AMD and/or to whomever can answer.
I just started using 100% gel for the big black keratosis spots on my head. So 6 times a day huh? I was wondering about that. Thanks for sharing.
I understand DMSO has helped with brain injuries. Has it shown to be effective for those that experience seizures such as people who have been diagnosed with epilepsy?
Maybe research the antisposmatic herb, lobilia. I make a tincture at home and it resolves any spasms, contracting of muscles almost instantly. That is technically what is happening in the body during a seizure. A massive contraction and spasm of the body.
This doesn't necessarily treat the seizure itself, but may be just relaxing muscles. Hard to say without eeg and imaging to follow it. But if it works, then hey! Good! With just speculation, you could also take an OTC gaba supplement. In the hospital, I treat seizures with benzos, barbiturates, and gaba-helping medications like keppra, etc. if I really want to quiet the brain, I'll give a slug of propofol (with respiratory support). All of these promote gaba uptake. Just a thought.
does this only treat the seizure? I am looking for something that may prevent them entirely
I don't think it treats the cause but it is something good to have on hand at all times to help with the seizures until you can find a cure.
Thank you so much!
Thanks for all your time and effort. You are a true angel.
Still have 3 more parts on this one to write....
I subscribed because of the DMSO article. I am looking forward to the other parts on it. I am a retired CPA learning to take care of my health in a natural way using a functional medicine doctor and reading everything I can find online like your substack, Dr Mercola's website, Deep Roots at Home website, and FLCCC. I thank God for all of you and your courage and dedication to truth and not allowing the bullies on the internet or in conventional medicine to stop you. God bless you!
Like a comment from an earlier post, you are truly an angel, a deliverer to so many of us, giving us Support to continue going forward on a less corrupted path to a healthier, more autonomous life. I found you early on during the Covid hysteria. Luckily, I’d made the decision and convinced my husband not to get the jabs. Like swimming upstream! Most all our friends couldn’t wait to get them. And all have had major events a a result.
Your posts help educate me going forward.
I am a 74 yo healthy, 130lb. Midwestern female with no preexisting conditions and I take NO prescriptions, only supplements. I was diagnosed via CT several years ago with suspicious “spots” in both lower lungs.
I immediately worked with a naturopath via phone ( she in WA, I’m in MO) Since then they’ve gotten no worse. She sent me some tinctures and recommended I drink Essaic tea. I also had been following Dr Brownstein in MI before the world went Covid crazy. I nebulize hydrogen peroxide in saline sometimes adding Lugol’s iodine. I have a pulmonary doc who is sensible and didn’t recommend a biopsy, but adopted a watch and wait stance. He isn’t sure what they are…..cancer, parasite, infection….🤷♀️
I would like to see you publish a book with all your past posts. The amount of information that you include in them is staggering. I was a nursing major decades ago before I had to drop out; I feel you’ve continued my education.
Until big pharma is reformed, we must all look to our diets and more natural ways to help ourselves. Food is medicine and nature supplies much of what we need to stay healthy, we just have to uncover it. You are helping do that. Many, many thanks!
Where did you get your Essaic tea?
We get Essiac from the website - GenuineEssiac.com
Ditto. I've used it topically with magnesium oil in the past. I have gotten lazy and probably haven't done it consistently in the past couple of years. This article helped sparked a re-interest into starting DMSO back again.
I really appreciate how thorough you are in general and with this topic in particular. What a gift.
Doc, thank you very much for the research into this compound. I’m a working EMT in FL. Relatively healthy and working 2-3 shifts per week. I also have gout and have occasional flare up’s. I’m on 300MG of Allopurinol QD. Today I had to cancel my shift due to swollen tender joints - left lateral ankle area and right medial knee joint. I started using 70% DMSO yesterday topically. I’m noticing some decrease in swelling but still too painful to work. I am not looking for a Dx, just asking if taking a small amount orally w/ water would increase the effectiveness and shorten the time to resolution?
My dad ate cherries, even cherry pie filling on toast. The gout was gone in 3 hours. Diet related issue for the men in my family.
My husband drinks organic DARK tart cherry juice in water almost religiously now. He had gout and was told to drink only the dark, with no sugar, and his gout symptoms went away almost immediately. He dilutes it in a glass of water so that it is not so strong and tart. Has had no symptoms since.
I have a friend with gout who does this also. Seems to work very well for him.
I was introduced to Dark Cherry unsweetened juice when I had a temporary flare-up of gout, never in my life. I was out of State on a Running program and didn't eat the foods I normally eat, went swimming in chlorinated water, a few sugar drinks and wham, flared up could hardly walk for about a week. I started with the DMSO, which greatly helped, and then the juice with some lemon in it to clear the joints of lactic acid buildup. No pain meds, I did use some arnica at the start, but that was it. I haven't had a flare-up since then, which was a few years ago. But any time the muscles or joints get sore I use DMSO, and sometimes with magnesium cream that I make.
What form of arnica did you use? Pills or cream?
The dissolveable tablets called T- Releif
Is one of those a simple guide for using DMSO orally, or topically? I have read your articles, and its pretty deep in the weeds for the lay reader. I understand though, since pèople want to be able to refer to something. I have been diluting 5ml in juice twice a day, but would be good to know ml/kg or similar. Although if its relatively non toxic, I might increase to 10ml twice a day just to see.
The Healing with DMSO A Complete Guide by Amanda Vollmer pdf is widely available. My computer (or Substack) is not letting me copy links today, but a search should present it. If it's about 211-213 pp, it's the one.
MUCH easier to work our your treatments using this guide.
Thank you. Best website for download is:
https://1lib.sk/book/24230047/e27880/healing-with-dmso-the-complete-guide-to-safe-and-natural-treatments-for-managing-pain-inflammation.html
Thanks, I read it, but its quite vague and general when coming to dosing. What is really needed for oral use is ml/kg. For example, I am 94kg, what is the maximum dose to titrate up to? I have been taking 10ml morning and night but not seen any benefits, and it seems there should be, but perhaps the dose is wrong.
Maybe this will help. I hope I'm understanding your question correctly:
The mg/kg is given, yes, very close to the bottom of the page?
1st start with your weight of 94kg and find the max mg/kg you want to try, and calculate how many mg that is.
2nd, use this weight to volume conversion--just enter DMSO in the search field and there's a dropdown field, select what is correct. https://www.aqua-calc.com/calculate/volume-to-weight That will give you cubic centimeters.
3rd, convert your cc's to household measurement such as tsp here https://www.unitconverters.net/volume/cc-to-teaspoon-metric.htm
For example a dose I'm considering trying is 0.1g/kg for my weight of 63kg. That comes to a bit over 5.7 cc's, or 1.15 tsp. So of course I'll just do 1-1/8th tsp then a drop more.
If I misunderstood your question, I apologize!
The ml/kg is given close to the bottom of which page? I can do the math, I just don't have any numbers to use ? The Midwestern Dr has written screeds on it, and I'm sold on it, but ml/kg would be the most useful thing
i'll see if i can find it. What strength DMSO are you using? I think that is why they say mg/kg: some DMSO is diluted and some is full strength. the ml will not be the same. The diluted stuff takes more ml to deliver the same number of mg, as a full strength solution does.
I have full strength. Mostly i think it is full strength right? but just in case, is yours full strength or is it already diluted?
For internal use, are you using the same DMSO that you apply topically?
It's medical grade 100% DMSO. Yes--say rather, I would only use a topical preparation that I would also take internally. It gets into the body either way, and the skin does not act as a filter. I am not using it right now because I had a PRP injection and have to do nothing to affect my platelets or anything else.
The book is also on Amazon for I think 15.00.
I subscribed due to this article. I was paralyzed (c5) 30 years ago this coming November due to a dtap causing transverse myelitis. In 2020 I began to recover some movement in my left arm and torso and I don’t even know how so I am very hopeful that this will help. Thank you for taking the time to do write this!
How are you doing? Have you implemented DMSO? I had bad MS flare in ‘14, that still has my once dominant, not so dominant and weak. What if?!!
I fell again today and sure could use DMSO right now for several owies that happened. Ugh
I’m just learning about it & trying to figure it lol out. Wish I knew someone who can give it to me straight. I have a tendency to overthink & complicate.
Waiting with bated breath. I am in Milwaukee.
It must have been something like 60 years ago that I first read about DMSO.
In those pre Internet days, particularly after inquiring about it with some friends who were MDs, I got the response that it was quackery nonsense. Never heard anything about it since, except vague mentions now and then, until THIS article which is well researched and of great interest.
We now must wonder what other promising treatments or drugs are being blocked by a medical establishment centered on FDA and associated agencies.
It is clear that the time for massive systemic reforms has arrived.
It is also clear that Harris-Walz will NOT do it, are apparently not even thinking about it while they engage in their WEF open borders undermine citizenship and sovereignty acts.
There is a guy named RFK Jr. who will do it and who has joined with Trump. I don't care if you like or hate them. The point is, will they do the reforms ? THEY WILL.
Trump is not a medical guy, he is a manager. He was easily fooled by the establishment last time into believing that the vaccines were the only viable treatment for Covid-19 as Dr. Scott Atlas mentions in his book "A Plague Upon Our House". This time is different.
I'm trying to live up to the name of this publication!
After reading your article about UVBI, I was able to find a doctor nearby that administers this treatment and have had four UVBI plus ozone sessions.
This doctor said she had recently discovered your substack So word is getting around.
Same here. Just did my first UVBI/ozone session after reading this article.
What condition and how is it so far?
I've only done 1 treatment so far. I have a low level bacterial infection that shows up in my blood work but doesn't really bother me. I will find out in about 6 months when I get my next lab work. I'll try to update. I'm doing a combo of UVBI with ozone.
Where do you live and who are you going to? It’s difficult to find a practitioner who does these treatments!
You certainly have and more. While I'm here I want to let you know that I found 70/30 DMSO mixed with distilled water, aloe, and lavender, the brand you recommend DMSO Store on eBay. They have a huge selection of sizes of gels and liquids there. The 70/30 mixes are 3oz. liquid roll-on, Here's the link to their store And thanks so much for everything you do for us all, you have a heart of gold💛: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ssn=dmsostore&_trksid=p2560298.m570.l50838
Sure thing! As a quick point, that's a different company than the one I recommended (two different groups are using that name), but if they help you that's all that matters.
You are succeeding !!!
Again, thanks !!
CJ
Merhaba DMSO kullanım dozlarının olduğu bir yazınız var mı? varsa nerede?
Reforms aren't the answer. As long as you allow centralized power to exist, it will eventually be taken over by society's psychopaths and sociopaths. Central power always and everywhere leads to corruption and abuse. The only way forward, in science, government and economics, are decentralized systems. Reforms merely postpone the inevitable unless you decentralize all power.
my thinking exactly! As you said, "central power always and everywhere leads to corruption and abuse!" That's why I believe we have government upside down and backwards! We let States tell the local governments (city and county) what to do, and we let the Fed's tell the States AND the cities/counties what to do. That hierarchy is backwards. Local government should be at the TOP of the hierarchy. That is, once the city or county decides to do or not do something, the State and the Fed's should NOT be able to override the decision of the local government. What kind of government is it that lets some bureaucrat 2500 miles distant tell the people who live here, work here, raise their families here, what they can and cannot do. That's not democracy, it's tyranny! Local democracy is the only true democracy in my opinion.
The Founders of the US had the right idea, but that was all upturned by Lincoln and the Civil War. Slavery was the pretense, but the real reason was to take power away from the States and consolidate power in the capital of the empire.
I agree. For some reason a huge portion of the population believes that a powerful central government is a good thing. I don't think there has ever been a country where such a government didn't end up in tyranny.
We are actually supposed to be a Constitutional Republic. The victors (tyrants) have re-written history and indcotrinated the public to brainwash the masses that we are a democracy.
of course. so I should rephrase my statement "local democracy is the only true democracy" to read "local democratic republic is the only true democratic republic". The reason that this is true is because concentrated power (like at the national level) always gets corrupted over time. I believe that is one reason why the founders intended most power to stay at state level and not at the national level. We can see what has happened to concentrated power at the FDA, CDC, and the other federal bureaucracies, that they have been corrupt for decades at least. Get rid of all these "regulatory" agencies which have been corrupted so that they now act as marketing arms for the very industries they are supposed to be regulating.
Truth be told, the FDA and CDC are not a part of the federal government. They're corporations masking as federal agencies just like the Federal Reserve.
semantics. they operate at the federal level, they have control over the entire country when it comes to regulating drugs and vaccines. Get rid of them and all the other 3 and 4 letter agencies. FEMA recently showed us they are either incompetent or deliberately killing people. BLS recently showed us they lied for a year about the number of new jobs created, "overstated" (lied) that number by nearly a million jobs. Get rid of them!
regarding the Federal Reserve, that's a whole 'nother can of worms, but won't go down that rabbit hole here ;-)
Agreed.
I so wish these UNCONSTITUTIONAL 3 letter agencies would be abolished….It MUST be handed back to the STATES!!!!!! The DS was able to do what it has done because of this problem!!!!!
But yes, there's a lot of other ones too :(
I am lucky enough to have read a book about DMSO back in the early 1980's that convinced me that not only is it safe, but it can facilitate healing. There was a time period after that where the only place I could get it was at agriculture supply stores. People who kept horses knew that it worked for accelerating healing of joint/tendon/ligament/muscle injuries, so the FDA would have had a real battle on their hands had they decided to take on these folks, so they let it continue to be sold in Ag stores.
The book pointed out the absurd lengths that the FDA went to demonize DMSO. They could not find a lethal dose! So they used enormous doses on rabbits, doses that if they were testing aspirin or alcohol it would have killed the rabbits, and the rabbits developed cataracts. That was it, that gave the FDA the excuse they needed to take it off the market (for a while, except at the Ag stores).
PimaCanyon, was it the book by Dr. Morton Walker “DMSO Nature’s Healer”? I was able to read it just recently for free on InternetArchive.org.
It may have been, but honestly I don't remember the title or the author. I found it browsing the shelves at the King Country library (Seattle area), early to mid-1980's. So the book would have been written about then or even in the 70's or 60's.
Seriously… “item not available due to issues with its content”.
Thanks for writing about the book on DMSO. I checked with my library and it's available!
the way I see it is if the Dem's win, we will have more of the same, more censorship, more corporate control, more Pharma products rammed down our throat, vaccine mandates which could affect all of us next time, and a continuation of the war in Ukraine.
If Trump wins and they don't kill him, he will try to end the Ukraine war and he will let RFK Jr go after Pharma and vaccines.
Both parties will support Israel. But one party will stop the Ukraine war (which has had us on the brink of nuclear annihilation for more than 2 years) and that party will not force vaccines on all of us.
I get it that Trump is not a very nice person. But with him in office, at least we have a chance. With Kamala, we continue down the road of totalitarianism.
Agreed. During the pandemic the liberal mantra of "my body my choice" switched to "your body, my choice!"
These people are dangerous
My wife has early onset Alzheimer's. July 2023, she quit feeding herself. Stage 7, can't walk, can't talk, and can't feed herself. Month by month there was continuing decline. Then she developed horrid bed sores, large open wounds. I greatly improved the diet, hygiene, and gave her my emergency use drugs, ivermectin and fendbendazole. It all worked, the bed sores are completely healed, and her skin is now fine. There was a side effect. It is now obvious, her Alzheimer's was caused by a brain infection, possibly a fungus. The two drugs are very good at treating infections. The decline stopped and there is definite evidence her remaining brain is recovering some ability. Now a year later, no further decline, and some mild recovery. Today she babbled, almost understandable, when I fed her. She drinks her milk by herself if I put the bottle in her hand.
After this article, I am going to try topical treatments of DMSO on her neck and back of her head. I am hoping that this will help with brain cells locked in a Cell Danger Response, (thanks doc.) and with blood flow and misfolded proteins. I will comment if it works, at least a month from now.
Yes, Gary, please keep us updated on your wife’s progress with the addition of DMSO!! I hope it helps!!!❤️
Yes I too would love an update on her progress. You are very devoted and it’s always a joy to see love demonstrated in such a way.
Wow that is awesome what you are doing for your wife. I would love to hear how the DSMO makes an impact. I pray that God is with you. Mark
God bless you and your wife! May God give you strength and knowledge 🙏
Any updates @garyp?
I would love to hear an update if you have one
How is she?
My husband is 100% disabled Vietnam vet, agent orange. He's got diabetes, neuropathy, torn rotator cuff, bursitis in hips & PTSD. He's in pain all the time despite taking 12 different meds, including 800 mg Gabapentin 4x's/day, Lidocaine patches & diclofenac sodium gel.
He's had 5 back surgeries, 4 in just the past 4 years:
2013 - first lumbar surgery
2021 - cervical neck surgery;
2022 - lumbar surgery again;
2023 - re-do of 2022 lumbar because bone didn't heal properly & screws came loose;
2024 - redo of 2021 cervical because bone didn't heal properly & screws came loose.
As soon as I read your article I drove to Tractor Supply & bought DMSO gel for animals. I came home & lathered it on hubby's feet, shoulder & lower back & hips. He finally got relief - better than all the other pain meds he's taking! He's cheered up.
Thank you for telling us about DMSO!
Thank you! I am going to use this quote.
Is there any way to get in touch with you? I have a lifelong friend whose 26 year old son who has been diagnosed with some sort of brain damage akin to "schizophrenia" --which the doctors at UCLA attribute to heavy marijuana use. He has had breakdowns and been hospitalized on a few occasions, now on pharmaceuticals that prevent psychosis, but he hates them and is overall just miserable. There seems no good end in sight for him. He is not the kids I have known since he was born. My idea is to find someone who can treat him wholistically, perhaps with DMSO and/or other "medicines" that have the chance of repairing or reversing the damage cause. Are there people or places that you could recommend? I would really appreciate any advice or referrals you could give me. Thank you.
My functional medicine doctor recommended DMSO 50% to her patients for Covid and flu prevention. Her instructions were to swab nasal passages twice a day. I had never heard of DMSO until then. It is amazing that DMSO can do so much. If only...my mother had a brain stem stroke 10 years ago. My brother-in-law has frontal lobe brain injury from a fall about 7 years ago. Both of them might have been helped in significant ways if DMSO had been available as a treatment option. Both struggle with normal daily living - needing constant help and attention. It makes me angry that FDA has abandoned its role of helping and protecting patients. Money is the root of this evil. Thank you, Thank you for all you do to bring truth and light to these issues.
Thank you
The love of money is the root of all evil. Money is a necessity in this world whether we like it or not but there are those that thrive off the land can survive without it.
Reading the above, is tey applying the disorder topically even though it has been so long. I'm going to do this for my mom asap. Good luck to you!
it *seems* applying the *dmso* topically *could still be helpful*
I will try it on left knee that I damaged playing college soccer decades ago. Love experimenting! Thanks Doc!
Intuitively, if the goal were to get DMSO to deep tissue, via the skin would seem the least efficient method. IV would be the quickest but isn't an option at home. That leaves orally, which would seem the best method and probably pretty fast especially on an empty stomach.
Our elderly dog Lana was having vestibular (balance) issues, which seemed to be triggered by TIAs (mini strokes). We started by giving her a small amount of Heiltropfen DMSO and magnesium. It nearly instantly resolved a symptom of erratic uncontrolled eye movements, and it very quickly greatly improved her balance issues (she still pulls to the right, but it's not too noticable when she walks). If we had known about DMSO sooner, we think we could have prevented some of her recent hearing and vision loss. We currently rub a small amount of a rose scented DMSO/aloe vera cream on her belly every day (which she loves to lick off!). We have gotten an extra year and a half with her so far. She was getting close to circling the drain before the DMSO. Grounding also helped a lot.
She also had a diseased tooth in the bottom right rear of her mouth, which the vet would have recommended pulling if she wasn't so frail. We spray 3000 ppm chlorine dioxide on it daily and it is showing significant signs of healing!
This was another fantastic article! Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge and experience with all of us!
I am so happy you left this comment. I've never heard of someone treating their pet's stroke with DMSO but it completely makes sense to me why it would work.
I wish I had known about this for my dog when he hit his head traveling in the car when I had to break hard for a deer. He developed vestibular issue immediately. I brought him to a nearby vet as an ER walk in. They had no solution but to wait it out. He recovered most of his functions but it was hell for 3 weeks. If I had known about this he could have been helped much sooner.
I wonder if it would help with my dog’s seizures?
The great thing about being your own naturopathic doctor/vet is you can try it to see if it will help your dogs seizures. DMSO comes in 100% pure liquid too, which could be added to dogs water. A couple drops at first, depending on dog size. You can use a topical too but fur is a small problem as the DMSO needs to be on clean skin.
Hi! Amazing news! Where would I purchase the DMSO/aloe Vera cream?
It’s very easy to make your own. There are many recipes in Amanda Volmers small book on DMSO.
Nature's Gift DMSO Cream with Aloe Vera, 4 oz - Rose Scented Skin Moisturizer for Adults https://a.co/d/d01rVx5
I think you'll find more than one listing for this on Amazon. Lately I've been getting ours from walmart.com, where it has been a bit cheaper.
I think this is the one I used in the 90's in the USA!
Amazon.com. there are many varieties of DMSO on Amazon. I use a aloe-vera gel (more expensive but easier on skin areas that may have more sensitive skin, like belly or lower back.) I use a roll-on product on my bad knee and on my legs to treat My own use of both gel and roll-on have taught me to make sure my skin is free from any products or lotions, because it will burn. DMSO does work. If you decide to use a gel or cream on your dog, I would try it on an areal where there is less fur, like belly, so it can be absorbed. Be sure to wipe the skin with a damp cloth because skin has to be clean or it will sting. DMSO will shove whatever is on your skin into your body, so clean dry skin is necessary. DMSO does not burn when skin is clean. Dog or human, I would assume.
I am glad to see other pet parents becoming their own vets. I have been my own doctor for a very long time and use DMSO myself. My really big girl is 11-ish and getting a bit limpy and slower. I give her CBD tincture but DMSO might be the perfect thing to help her. I love my dogs. They are my family.
Lana's still in great shape, but has some dementia, mainly sundowner's syndrome. We give her hemp treats to overcome some of the anxiety, which is something we need to bootleg into town, since we live in a state where hemp and CBD are illegal...
Please list the dosage you used for vestibular issue. My 14 lab suffers from this. I want to see if this will help her.
Here is the more complete version of my comment:
https://eclectichealing.substack.com/p/the-magic-of-dmso?r=1azvtv
Lana weighs 30 pounds, and we currently have her on four drops, twice per day. She has survived two years since the onset of her TIAs, which we believe to have been vaccine-induced. Good Luck!
Much appreciated, thank you!
Dear Doctor AMD
What a wonderful article on DMSO...God Bless you.
Its good karma that you have exercised on publishing this article.
In India my sister had to do a liver transplant 20 years ago, the liver cadaver was soaked in DMSO and thats how it was transported before the surgery, very funny that the FDA thinks it dangerous.
Please keep the good work going. The world need more people like you to tilt the balance towards the good forces.
Great article real heartfelt appreciation and gratitude.
Thank you!
Wow, I've been looking for a Down Syndrome treatment, since my young daughter has it, and is developing very slowly.
I'd used DMSO previously for a serious injury (broken foot and back) which seemed to help. But it sounds like it's much more useful than that.
Great info!
Would you please update us here if you do decide to try treating your daughter? I have friends who also have a daughter with DS. Thanks Ian.
When I worked in the commercial thoroughbred horse business DMSO (IV form) was used to treat conditions such as Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis, West Nile, and Laminitis. It was also used externally as an anti-inflammatory.
Also Wobblers
In appreciation of the time and effort spent on this article and for your dedication to educating the population at large, I became a paid subscriber today. Thank you so much!
Thank you for another ecxellent piece of work. Early in "covid" period I was in a zoom meeting with a physician who had experience using IV DMSO to treat cancer. I look forward to next episodes.
Didn't the mafia say pay me and stick to the rules or you'll be in trouble ? I am struggling to see how the current "healthcare system" is any different.
:(
it is not health care
I have what is called EMF hypersensitivity. DMSO has been life changing and life saving for me. I discovered how much it helped after I had a painful injury from felling a large tree branch that glanced against my foot. I'd done enough research on DMSO to use it for pain and tissue healing of this injury. What I found out is that it kept my EMF hypersensitivity symptoms largely at bay. If I had not discovered this a couple of years ago, I do not believe I would still be alive. The symptoms were too unbearable and I was too tired of running from civilization to avoid them.
This is really interesting thank you for sharing.
Wow! Do you take DMSO internally to mitigate your sensitivity? If so, would you please share the dose and the frequency? Thanks!
I use it externally. I have a bottle of 50% DMSO/50% water and rub it on skin a couple times a day.
Are you taking it orally?
No. Transdermally.
This is absolutely incredible. I am sharing this with all my patients who will listen. Thank you so so much. I can only imagine all the time and work this took. I am printing it out and many of the references as well.
I already bought some and have been using it on an injury and some nerve pain with good results. Next will be my hubby’s chronic neuropathy — I will report back on that after some time for whomever may want to troll through the comments.
You are amazing …. Thank you for all you do for us!! ❤️🙏🏻
Thank you! This is just the first part too.
Hi Cara, where did you purchase? TY!
Hi I got mine on Amazon (Ug of course). I got Heliotropfen brand. It seems pure.
Utopia Silver also sells some excellent DMSO
Thanks. Just ordered.
Thank you!!
"no death has ever been linked to DMSO"
Just an FYI: Geoff Pain has a substack in response to this article, for which his subtitle reads: "The anonymous "Midwestern Doctor" describes DMSO as creating "Miraculous Response" and "Remarkably Safe". I think this person should be unmasked."
He also states that, "A quick look at US FAERS reveals 21 Deaths, 151 Serious cases from a total of 214 reports for DMSO itself, a substance that I handled with extreme caution in the laboratory. The number of Deaths will be under-reported because there is folklore claiming its is safe and the fact that it is frequently used as a solvent for other drugs."
I've been following Geoff for a while now in spite of the fact that he's occasionally taken these sorts of potshots at people. This one is particularly egregious and cowardly however, as 1. he has no qualms about commenting on other peoples posts, so I don't know why he doesn't do so here to initiate a potentially illuminating dialogue, and 2. he put his article behind a paywall so people can't respond to get a public dialogue going there.
Regardless of what happens here, given the numerous deaths under "mysterious circumstances" of people who've stepped on the toes of pharma and mainstream medicine, this call to "unmask" you is vile and reprehensible.
1) I feel its a bit premature for him to write that before the rest of this series comes out as many of the points he's mentioning will be addressed.
2) I read through the FAERS reports in the process of writing all of this. He did not interpret or depict them correctly.
3) The fact that he used a sensationalistic headline and then paywalled the rest of the article suggests his motivation was to make money not empower people or have the crucial information that could "protect people from being killed by DMSO" be known.
4) People like that are a fact of life, but it's still sad they don't consider the harm they create by pushing people away from things that can really help people.
Yes such a sad fact of life...so well put
Did they die with OR from DMSO. Suggests another rhetorical tactic as the cov pushers.
"Vile and reprehensible" are the operative words here, Dingo Roberts, and can usually describe anyone who thinks that accumulating money is the only thing that matters.
Sadly, the percentage of such people who hold prominent positions on the world stage is at an all-time high, and they currently run rampant in government, media, banking, warmongering, academia and, yes, medicine. Is there a Leader in the house?
Being generous to Pain, my guess is that whoever trained him had fallen the FDA's disinformation campaign about DMSO and drilled into him to never touch DMSO while working in it because it was super dangeous and Pain never thought to question why he was he was so scared of it in the lab.
Conversely I know other lab workers who started using DMSO because they saw it preserved cells at a very high concentration which they interpreted as a sign it couldn't be toxic (e.g., I recently learned one one of my relatives did this and then fixed their knee with DMSO)
You are thoughtful and kind-hearted!!!
As a young nurse in the 60s, I remember the talk about DMSO. I remember a lot of athletes were using it for injuries, and we were hearing warnings that it was dangerous. How sad that all these years later you reveal how much benefit it could have generated for so many. It breaks my heart to think of those who could have been saved or had better quality of life. Thank you, AMD.
I also subscribed because of the DMSO article. I used it once back in the early 1980s. I remember the garlic taste it instantly caused. So when I saw the article I read it with intrigue. I had no idea the FDA sabotaged it! I ordered some the same day I read the Substack. Used it on my right shoulder and upper back. Fantastic results! Pain free and doing pushups again for the first time in a year. Now I'm researching taking it orally.
Failure is most devastating when it occurs despite maximum resources being applied to solve a problem, as this means success only exists as a theoretical premise. To the contrary, when failure is the result of neglect or treachery, a call for unbound optimism is warranted, as the ingredients for success only need to be uncovered (unforgotten) and put into action. I believe the current state of medicine solidly exists in the latter scenario, and DMSO is a shining example.
That's part of why I'm trying to get all of these articles out now.
My family is teeming with medical doctors and other healthcare practitioners, and it never ceases to amaze me how easily they spout orthodoxy… but your Substack has helped me make progress with some of them.
If you don’t mind me saying, I truly believe that your project with the AMD Substack and your ‘offline organizing/efforts’, is playing a tremendously outsized role in not only waking up the general public, but also waking up countless medical practitioners who desperately needed a “jolt” to their patient-care paradigm.
As for me, no words can ever express the gratitude I have for your magnanimous endeavor. You’ve equipped me with knowledge and perspectives that have allowed me to treat conditions of mine that have had >30 doctors stumped for many years.
Your wisdom is important to many as some of this can be done at home without a script.
Many more are waking up to our healthcare system so it’s vital for the self education that is needed and wanted by many of us that you are providing…
😁
Thanks MWD - and good to get them out before further censorship invasion. Wish i hadn't ditched my ancient bottle of DMSO (your bottle pic on the left) when i moved - (along with most stuff we owned). I don't think i ever used it - partly because of the MSM demonization of it, partly because i didn't know how and didn't really need it at the time.
Thank you so very much.! I am an MD who, prior to med school got a Masters in Social Work with emphasis on systems/family therapy. After med school I did a residency in Family Practice hoping to help people in a holistic way. It wasn't until I bumped into someone who had a good understanding of Homeopathy and I studied Hahnemann's holistic art that I began to hit my stride. More and more of my efforts to help people were focused on stimulating their own healing capacities through homeopathy and, also, through education about toxins in "medicines", "vaccines", food and the environment. It is wonderful to read your posts! It is obvious that you have done a tremendous amount of work. Blessings!!
Thank you! : )
DMSO is similar to gypsum in Chinese Medicine. Gypsum is CaSO4 and sulfate is a strong kosmotrope on the Hofmeister series. It organizes and stabilizes structural water so that communication will be restored (Qi flows) and lysosomes stabilized, inflammation goes down. Gypsum gets absorbed less efficiently, DMSO probably better.
That's really interesting.
Keep going.....
This is wild. My stepfather used to swear by DMSO for a variety of ailments, he had bottles of it around the house. By modern terms, he would be described as a redneck, no college, unclear to me if he finished high school. I thought he was kind of wacky. He drank heavy, smoked heavy, cooked in Crisco and bacon fat, prepared an amazing sausage, milk, and bacon fat gravy and fried chicken, loved to shoot his guns. He died of pneumonia, never had heart disease or any of that. Guess he was on to something. RIP.
Thank you for your timely article. I have been taking DMSO + MMS (chlorine dioxide) for some time for ulcerative colitis + cardiac ectasia and now am convinced I'm on the right track.
How do you take the MMS and how much?
Read Jim Humble’s book: MMS Health Recovery Guidebook. He explains how to use MMS and DMSO clearly and compassionately.
I read up on both sides of MMS and came to the conclusion it is poisonous. Be careful!
You've been fooled. It is game changing, and you are missing out.
Can you link to your sources on the dangers? Thank you!
Wonderful article! The blood that is on The Blobs hands (ht Mike Benz) is immense!
Wow, wow, wow!!! This is an INCREDIBLE article. I haven't fully digested all of it yet, but there is so much good and useful information here for us all. Many many thanks!!
I have a question in the oral dosing section. You say "When an adult takes DMSO, start out at a low dose of about 3.5g in a glass of water, observe the effects, and then gradually raise it by 3.5g a day until you find the appropriate dose. This rate can be raised to 7ml, but you want to be mindful not to hit a concentration that irritates the mouth or throat (which normally requires diluting it into multiple drinks once you’re taking over 10g a day.
Do you mean 3.5ml?
let me fix that
No need:
Density of DMSO is nearly the same as water. (1 gram per cubic centimeter.)
One milliliter (ml) = 1 cubic centimeter (1 cc)
Thus, for DMSO (and probably most other liquids) 1 gram = 1 cc = 1 ml.
True, but it’s easier to measure a liquid by volume (mL, typically in a syringe for small amounts) rather than weighing a volume of liquid on a gram scale.
You state the dose in gms... I don't have a scale that will do that .. can you translate to ml?
For water, milliliters (mL) = grams (g). This changes for liquids of different densities For example, 1 mL of honey weighs 1.4 g. DMSO is about 10% denser than water, so 1 mL = 1.1 g, but that’s close enough to being equal for home use. Other common U.S. measurements:
A teaspoon is roughly 5 milliliters (mL) = 5 grams (g).
A tablespoon is roughly 15 mL = 15 g = 1/2 fluid ounce.
I did grams because a lot of DMSO isn't sold as 100% so I thought giving mL's would make it too confusing.
Uh oh. I tried using the calculator to convert 3.5 grams to oz.s I started taking 1/2 teaspoon in my coffee. Is that a good dose to try and help the optic nerve and other circulatory issues?
When I listened to it just two days ago it still said grams.
How about when mixed with fenben. Do you have advise on how to safely use with nutraceuticals, like ivermectin or fenben? I assume only a teaspoon or less could be used
I have not mixed those so I can't say for certain.
Wow. I’ve been searching for over an hour for clarity on this.. most other notations have been regarding 1 t. (teaspoon) As a place to start. Then after 3 days, can increase to 3 t.
but suggests spacing each 1t. out over the day.
The Grams thing totally got me so confused and my well meaning friends just says “ he’s told you what the amounts are .”
I’ve been searching feverishly how to take 3.5 grams. And what it was…
With so many issues going & I’m at day 35 now of 1t a day, I need to go to 1 t twice a day.
Also confusing: well meaning friend says empty stomach and I see Midwestern Doc seems to say after a meal.. that would make things so much easier for the other doses.
Sorry so long winded but I am 138# female and well meaning friend wanted me to start out like gang busters cause of so many issues… spinal stenosis, degenerative everything nearly entire spine, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis…. Just want to do what I can while I can. The stenosis is starting to affect clear cognitive thinking…sadly
In addition, the scoliosis and osteoporosis has my darn ribs inside my pelvis…. I could’ve done without that one for sure. I can still stand up pretty straight. 75 years old and intent on going to grandkids vball games…
Thank you Mr MW Dr. for your information…My oldest son forwarded Dr Pierre Kerry’s note on you off of X about 5-6 weeks ago..
Oh wow thank you I thought I was losing my mind lol
I don't have glass labware, so I am having to measure my DMSO in a stainless bowl by weight, not ml.
specific gravity of DMSO is 1.09. 1 ml of H2O = 1 g on the scale. DMSO is only slightly heavier.
Looking forward to the follow-up posts.
This is so timely for me. My husband is battling bladder cancer and using intravesical DMSO, we hope you will have more information on bladder cancer application with this remarkable remedy!
Hi, Sending love to you and your husband. I healed my cancer using the Incurables Program from Dr. Richard Schulze. He used to have hundreds of videos and testimonials and how to do things, but the FDA forced him to remove it all during Covid. Anyway, his program worked for me. I hope it can help your husband in addition to the DMSO. With all good wishes, Carol
Amazing! Does Dr. Schulze have his videos etc on any other platform?
Not that I know of. I purchased some videos and accompanying book off ebay by Sam Biser. Biser interviewed him in the 90s and I had the VHS tapes converted to disk and thumb drive. It's amazing, life saving information. Message me if you can't afford to buy them and I'll copy a thumb drive and send it to you. It's hard work, but beats the heck out of standard medicine, which really has nothing for disease. Grateful to the ER docs and open minded ones like MWD. Cheers!
I'd gladly pay you for your time if you would do that for me please
Sure, send me an email to contact you.
thanks, I messaged you
They are on BitChute https://www.bitchute.com/search?query=richard+schulze
Topically, not getting much relief from 1%, 30% or 70%.
Internally, taking 1 tsp with juice in the morning actually offers immediate pain relief. Surprises the heck out of me - so effective, I'm worried about *needing* it, like an addiction.
This plant medicine and I have a lot to learn about each other!
1 tsp of what strength?
1 tsp 99.95%, but drunk in a shot of grape juice or lemon juice. So what I'm drinking is not 99.95%, but the tsp is.
Hubby has repelled me, says I stink too much. What's a girl to do?
Sorry, but your talking about DMSO, right? As I look back at the thread, I guess MSM was the main point but both were mentioned.
Yes DMSO. I'm not MMS fluent yet. Haven't figured out how to source & mix.
Seriously, thank you for this! Reading this article (and your article on UVBI), felt like finding a lost dusty tome of desperately needed wisdom in the back corner of a library hardly anyone ever visits.
That's why I do this!
I bought the book “Healing with DSMO”. It explicitly states one should stop alcohol use while using DSMO which can take up one week to clear the body through the skin.
I used “medical” marijuana for a few years. I dislike smoking or vaping, which left only the concentrates as an option. These typically are in “pure” form, requiring some type of solvent or come in an alcohol solution. I disliked the latter option, as I’m a reformed alcoholic*. Although I’d never used it before, I vaguely knew what DMSO was, so I ordered a bottle. I made solutions at various concentrations from the cannabis oils.
As Doc says, DMSO is not suitable for all plastics. You can find lists that say which are suitable (and verify using recycle code). I also used a test similar to Doc's, except I put a small amount in a bottle to test, let it stand many hours, then put a few drops on clean glass and let dry. Any residue? Out went that plastic container.
DMSO, unlike most solvents, gives the option for a transdermal product. Technically it works, but concerns over suitability of materials and proper dosing made me quickly abandon this method.
I settled on the convenience of a homemade solution of resin in DMSO mixed at a known strength. This allowed dosing via dropper. Even so, dosing was sometimes still an issue. THC is relatively safe (low toxicity) but overdose is not fun, especially if one’s desired dose is at the low end rather than the Twilight Anxiety Zone.
Thanks as always to Dr. Midwest for in-depth reporting. I still experiment with DMSO for minor uses like for cuts and applying Vitamin C to a birth mark. While I’m blessed with good health in my early 60s, I would try DMSO if I developed various health issues that it might address.
*Apparently I’m not so paranoid that I refuse (say) food flavorings that often contain alcohol, although some strict revered alcoholics say to avoid them. Nor has the fruit juice that’s been opened in my fridge, potentially with a trace of fermentation, caused me to go back to the liquor store.
I never had concentrates with alcohol! Always MCT or even olive oil - oil based concentrates.
I've started adding 0.5% DMSO to my cannabis oils, and it seems to potentiate them. I can use less. (I hear you on the vaping, what do they think we are, children?)
You mention MSM only twice in this article. We've been using MSM for years in my practice with great results. Would you comment on why DMSO might be superior to MSM? My review of your article and the chemistry of these two atoms has always led me to use MSM in my practice rather than DMSO. I would love a follow up article on this.
1) MSM is primarily used for the musculoskeletal issues.
2) That is a long article in of itself.
3) Realistically it will be at least a year before I can get to it in any detail.
Wow! A year. You are so amazing & so well disciplined, AMD!!! Thank you for all you do‼️ God Bless you & yours‼️❤️🙏
I find it very interesting that DMSO may have effect on the esophagus, eg esophageal stricture formation, including on on stricture formation in corrosive esophageal burns. I am diagnosed with Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) and had to be operated on twice because pieces of food got stuck, and I couldn't swallow. But in 2018 I started using MSM - together with vitamin C- because I heard it could reduce symptoms of pollen allergies. It worked, and after a few months I noticed that my problems with EoE was reduced as well. And it has worked now for six years; I don't need any meds for pollen allergies nor EoE. And if ever any pieces of food get stuck in my throat, I mix a spoon (or more) of MSM with a little bit of water, and try to swallow. Sofar it ha always released whatever food that got stuck. But now I got another tool in my toolbox:; DMSO. It is probably even more effective at reducing the swelling in the esophagus. I will definitely try it next time.
Now I have tried DMSO for my occasional problem with EoE, that is food getting stuck in my esophagus. It worked perfectly. Usually a high dose MSM in a bit of water releases whatever got stucks, but it wasn't so easy this time. DMSO however worked right away. This should be known to EoE patients and doctors.
I found this in the book The Miracle of MSM, by Stanley W. Jacob md (the doctor who pioneered DMSO research):
"Patients often develop severe scarring of the esophagus. They cannot swallow properly. Solid food sticks in the esophagus. They often lose their appetite. They lose weight and suffer from a lack of energy. Sometimes you have to
metal tubes are surgically inserted to gradually widen the esophagus so patients can swallow. A overproduction of stomach acid can creep up into the esophagus and exacerbate the destructive process of the disease. In Cindy Honaker's case, her gastroenterologist said her esophagus was “almost solid
like a lead pipe." It had the diameter of a pencil. In a time before effective acid blockers medicine, the acid had corroded away the valve in the lower part that opens to the stomach. For eleven years she underwent esophageal dilatations. She weighed 37 kilos as a result of not being able to eat normally.
Many years ago I treated this condition with DMSO and had excellent results. Then, when I started using MSM, I found the results were even better. Because of the smell that is associated with DMSO, people often do not continue taking it long term. MSM has no smell. Patients are therefore more likely to continue using it. We know that many of the benefits of DMSO are due to MSM action. MSM performs comprehensively repair work in the body. It increases the blood supply, which helps the healing process, and that acts as an analgesic and anti-inflammatory agent. In addition, MSM softens scar tissue. In the esophagus, this effect results in an increase in the functional diameter of the esophagus." (from the Swedish translation)
My 14 year old dog has tracheal collapse, not uncommon in smaller breeds. I wonder if applying gel to her throat area would help. I use some supplements that seem to help but she still suffers. Or orally?
Regarding tracheal collapse, I read that the inflammation is part of the cause and "enzymes involved in inflammation further soften the tracheal cartilage, making the collapse worse."
My guess is that DMSO, if you manage to apply it, might at least slow down the progression of the disease, since it is antiinflammatory. If you're lucky it might reverse it to some extent.
Why not combining MSM powder in the food of the dog and DMSO on the throat? Trying won't harm your dog, and is much cheaper than visiting the Vet.
Thx. Making a note of it.
I had been doing pretty well with her using glandular (bone & marrow), honey, slippery elm. And she was getting better. Then last couple of days, she’s gotten worse. Then I realized I had also been giving her liposomal Vit c, 2x/day. So I started back today. Really good stuff, but pricey. But that’s ok. We’ll see. I ordered dmso as well.
Did you use MSM orally or topically to get the great results?
MSM is most often used orally, dissolved in water for example. It can be combined with vitamin C, since there is supposed to be a synergy between the two.
I also want to commend you on how you allow many unpaid readers to read a majority of your paid articles. Many substack authors allow very little of the publication to be viewed on paid posts.
This important to send to the nonbelievers (LOL)… that I know.
Thanks Again
I only paywall the things that can cause issues if I make them publicly available. My main goal is to get the information out there. That's also why I'm a lot more selective on what topics I cover (as I have limited time to write so I want to focus on what makes the biggest impact).
Doc, for someone who has limited time to write, you certainly put out a lot of information, detailed. Thank you.
it all used to be free to everyone (but i subscribed with payment early so may have been unaware when a paywall began) (:
Thank you for revealing yet another suppressed medical treatment. Are you familiar with the use of nebulized hydrogen peroxide? I have been using it at the first sign of infection, it kills it dead very quickly. I have yet to uncover any studies, only a few doctors recomendations. This includes the book by Thomas E Levy called Rapid Virus Recovery.
Yes! Peroxide was one of the first alternative therapies I became familiar with.
Interesting. What strength hydrogen peroxide do you use for this?
When we got Covid before the jabs we nebulized 0.1% H2O2 every 4 hours. Stopped the Covid in its tracks.
3%, which is off the shelf
I use it the same way, however 3% is overkill and can irritate the nasal passages and throat. Dr Brownstein recommends 0.15% (from memory). I keep a 500ml batch made up I keep in the fridge that is 0.3% (9 parts IV saline, 1 part 3% food grade Hydrogen Peroxide). It has a half life of about 6 months at room temperature.
Yes mercola recommends starting at .3 and moving up as tolerated. I can't imagine more than 1 percent.
Thank you. It feels so empowering to have simple options like this.
Thank you for all of your work on this. I now know 8 people who have had a stroke following their transfections. 2 died. I hope everybody reading this will pay it forward to their friends. Many lives will be saved.
I recently cut the tip of my finger off and the nail while cooking. As soon as it had healed over in a couple of days, I started putting 50% DMSO / 50% aloe vera on it. The tip of that finger was almost completely healed in about 10 days.
Can I quote this in an upcoming article?
absolutely.
Also, my husband is 4 months post double lung transplant. He has a blood clot where they had put in a pic line. His right bronchi did not heal well and there is ischemic tissue. I believe once he out of the hospital I will start putting DMSO on those 2 areas to see if they will resolve faster. The DMSO I have, I bought at a feed store (in the horse section). 4 ounce gel in a plastic tub at 90% .
Ditto - I didn’t completely cut off the tip/side of my finger, but the cut was deep. I used DMSO when the skin closed. My thumb is completely healed.
Thank you Midwesterndoctor - you are an angel!
Thank you for sharing. His much did you apply? Just covering the area? And the. You bandaged it? How many times per day?
After covid we already know that the FDA is partnered with the devil himself, but to find out the horrific damage they did way back in the 1960's/1970's begs the question: Has the FDA EVER worked for the people, or have they ALWAYS been a marketing arm for Pharma and worse? What was their motivation for going after DMSO? Who was paying them? Obvious answers are Money and Pharma. It's hard to believe that there's this kind of evil in the world. and it's all right there in the 3 letter agencies in the capital of the empire!
The original founder of FDA really wanted to help the people, but then he got muscled out by industry and wrote a book about it. At some point I am going to write an article on that.
Outstanding
How could doctors stand back and not just bring in bottles of this and start swabbing and injecting. Why not take a chance.
They are governed by the "standard of care" as dictated by the insurance industry.
Don't blame the insurance companies. They don't care about standards of care. It's big pharma and the AMA plus FDA who are the criminals.
They are all connected--it is one big family under the umbrella of Big Pharma.
There are no insurance companies in Canada. Irrelevant
No but you do have Big Pharma and there lies the roadblock.
obviously stop being silly
They can just write a note in the chart for legal protection. You may need lawyers for back up. Get consent from a relative or the patient. Get everything signed. And if the medical college or admin makes a fuss call up the journalists at the city newspaper or even the Tv station. We had a guy who saved an entire hospital in Montreal by using the media. They tried to break him but he won in the end and the citizens think he is a hero. I used to give second opinion consults to patients in rthe preop clinic when I saw them scheduled for big surgery with a bad surgeon. When the patient is on board they can't touch you, because the jerks have things to hide.
IKR? I so want to tell my GP that I'm doing this. She has an open mind, but - still - terrifying.
And here - anything you report can bounce back on you. But - how many more people could be helped? Nearly everyone in my circles could benefit from this!
Wow I'm so glad I was able to read this, and while DMSO is obviously an amazing substance and should be known about and studied by countless doctors and scientists the fact that it took me this long to hear about it is infuriating! I'll be taking my time to share this article with everyone I know and even posting it on X to RFK Jr and such to try to get it the attention it deserves.
Thank you so much for writing this! Any further articles on DMSO please share w/me as I'm new to this platform and don't yet know the best way to search/find such articles
I'm 76. Sole care-giver to wife who died from colon cancer about 5 years ago. I never had high blood pressure problems until undergoing the stress of her final 6 months. My primary care doc said the stress of her care contributed to my increase for which I take 25mg of Losartin daily. I wonder if DMSO would lower it back to normal? Thank you for all of your great articles. I'm really enjoying this series.
Thank you so much! I had a stroke 2 months ago; I was working in the garden and it felt like someone stabbed me in the head with a thin piece of wire. I walked up to the house and got into bed. I never get headaches; it was so painful. I stayed in bed a week; just getting up to drink water and pee and sleeping most of the time. When I finally figured out what had happened, I went to juice fasting and American Botanical Pharmacy's Brain Formula. Dr. Richard Schulze was a practicing Naturopath and Herbalist who was harassed and arrested in the 90s, not because he did anything wrong, but because he was curing the incurables. Anyway, I had done his whole Incurables Program for breast cancer, which my mother died of. It is a tough detox and juice fasting program with cold sheet treatments, colonics, etc. His program did heal people with some very bad cases of stroke, but I just am kind of depressed at the thought of doing that whole program again. I found someone in my area that does DMSO IVs. Do you think this would help with someone 2 months post stroke; or would just taking it orally work, too? I'm not a very "medical" person. My kids were born at home with a midwife and I was truly disgusted with my mother's experience with surgery and chemo, hence, why I chose Dr. Schulze's program to heal my cancer. My main problem is short term memory loss and mostly being very depressed about the whole situation. Thank you for your writing! I finally joined as a paid subscriber, too. ♥♥♥
Both will help. IV is better.
Thank you! 🙏
Thank you!
If one doesn’t have access to IV, could an enema get enough DMSO through the hepatic portal vein to act like an IV?
This a great idea regardless. Although, would it hurt the intestinal lining.
Carol, I’ve read others taking about using DMSO in enemas but I haven’t found a recipe. I’ve been taking a teaspoon of DMSO diluted in water and haven’t felt any negative issues so I don’t think I’d have an issuing with an enema if using the correct dosage. My main concern is finding an enema kit that will have DMSO compatible plastic, especially the tubing. Maybe need tubing that IV DMSO use?
My functional medicine doctor recommended DMSO 50% to her patients for Covid and flu prevention. Her instructions were to swab nasal passages twice a day. I had never heard of DMSO until then. It is amazing that DMSO can do so much. If only...my mother had a brain stem stroke 10 years ago. My brother-in-law has frontal lobe brain injury from a fall about 7 years ago. Both of them might have been helped in significant ways if DMSO had been available as a treatment option. Both struggle with normal daily living - needing constant help and attention. It makes me angry that FDA has abandoned its role of helping and protecting patients. Money is the root of this evil. Thank you, Thank you for all you do to bring truth and light to these issues.
i doubt if that was ever fda's role.
DMSO just cured the poison ivy on my forearms in 48 hours. I’m highly allergic to poison ivy, usually battling cases for a couple of weeks. Experimenting with DMSO topical cream on my face and arms, I accidentally discovered the curing of my poison ivy.
I found another patch on my right ankle and applied DMSO this morning. At the writing of this comment, it is already dry and does not itch!!! This evening I noticed a third patch on my left ankle, which I will treat in the morning.
Wow, wow, wow.
Having recently moved back to the family farm in the Ozarks, we are currently living with my mother in law (79) in my husband’s childhood farmhouse. I am now armed with DMSO and am treating her arthritis daily with topical DMSO. We are ready if she ever has a stroke.
Already it’s helping my own arthritis in my fingers. And outing it on my face every morning is incredible. My skin feels great.
I hope this becomes a folk remedy in the Ozarks!
My family is c/o the odor… dang it! They can smell me.
I'm a brand new subscriber, and appreciate your dedication. I'll be applying DMSO to my wife's knee 6 months post patellar dislocation injury, two surgeries and one MUA; constant pain, and range of motion only 80 degrees. Also will try it on two of our adopted boys who received TBI's many years ago from their bio-dad, resulting in learning disabilities.
Thank you so much for this article! I copied and pasted the dosing and the link into a note so I can always refer back to it.
I purchased some of the DMSO in liquid form and gel form. Both are a 70/30 mix with water.
The liquid came in a brown, glass bottle with a glass dropper, encased in a hard cardboard tube. The tube states to store the DMSO in it.
The gel came in a plastic tub, so I transferred it to a glass jar with a metal lid. I store it in a cabinet, so it’s not exposed to light.
I have been dosing myself, and my elderly dog, with two droppers full (one dropper is 10 drops) of the liquid DMSO for a few days now, in the morning.
I have also been rubbing the DMSO gel on my hands a couple times a day. I’ve rubbed it on my knee once or twice. I have arthritis in other parts of my body as well, but I don’t wish to cover myself head-to-toe with DMSO.
Both me and my dog have been sleeping better because we’re not in pain from arthritis. My hips don’t wake me at night, prompting me to turn over. My knees aren’t upset because one of my dogs prefers to sleep with his head on them. My husband is happy because he sleeps better when we spoon.
My hands haven’t been hurting at all, and I have full mobility to be the keyboard warrior my employer pays me to be.
I was thinking this may be the placebo effect, but since I was not expecting to sleep so soundly, without moving all night, two nights in a row, I’ve ruled that out.
Thank you for putting together these articles for us. You are a blessing! A million thank you’s!
Only liquid needs to in glass.
Thank you for letting me know. I have to say, it’s the weirdest thing, the “elderly nubs” on my knuckles are shrinking. I am so stunned. It is absolutely mind boggling that they’re not hurting like they used to *and* they’re shrinking. I don’t even know what to say about.
I have been texting links to your articles to everyone I know. I know so many people who would benefit from using DMSO if they just started using it.
Thank you again! You are in my prayers. God bless you!
Some more recent papers (animal models and in vitro) suggest that some caution is warranted, but I did not check whether the dosages used were, as is often the case, much higher than those used by actual human patients:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12044545/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11137315/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/brb3.2146
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0107447
Thank you very much for your illuminating articles.
I was very interested in your DMSO pubblication because it seemed it could be of help for my wife who is suffering since several years from a peripheral neuropathy that affects her balance and coordination standing and walking. I was considering the skin application from her feet and looking for companies that export dmso to Italy, but was a bit allarmed by some studies on the effects on periferal nerves (they mention blocking conduction in the smaller peripheral nerve fibers) and the report of a case of a neuropathy somehow linked to dmso application. I see it as anecdotal but it still made me wait and try to understand more...
Part 2 will expain.
If I was in charge of giving out Nobel Prizes, I would definitely have you as the first person to get one. It is truly remarkable that so many therapies have been hidden away just because of greed. What I really love about your approach is that you BACK up everything with LINKS to the studies. It really makes a difference whenever I try to introduce someone to your Substack. Anecdotal evidence is what people are used to when they hear about a different therapy and we have those plus studies and facts. I turned my doctor onto this substack and I hope she opens her mind to the many things we are not told by mainstream anything. Interesting note anecdote means to witness something....seems good enough for a court of law but not in the scientific sense.
It takes about 10x longer to do that, but I do because I feel I have a responsibility to make sure these therapies get the best shot they can.
That is the very reason that people trust what you write...it's backed up by data that even the most skeptical person can't refute. Keep up the great work and I look forward to the remaining parts of the DMSO articles. Hopefully they don't take too long to get published. I have a relative that just got diagnosed with ALS in Europe and he is only in his late 40's. He was on statins and he has really regressed since he found out about the disease. I will mention to them to search to see if they can get any IV DMSO in Europe to give it a try....nothing to lose. Again, thank you so much for the effort you put into this substack.
Wow what a treat! I was introduced to DMSO when my 17 year old son presented Crohn's disease with an abscess at his terminal illium. I found the website "Listen to Your Gut" and she had a DMSO protocol we used to completely dissolve the abscess. He did not take it internally but used a 50 - 70% concentration with castor oil and heat on the area every day for 6 or 8 weeks. I use it topically with liquid magnesium to help with sore muscles and joints.
When we apply topically, how much to use? How thickly? How many times per day? How do you go about making “70%”?
We don't use much at a time so to make a 70% solution just do 7 drops of DMSO and 3 drops of distilled water. Some people have sensitive skin and 70% can burn or irritate. My son used the protocol at the above website and applied it once a day per the instructions. If I remember right he "painted" it on (use clean fingers or a natural bristled brush), then after it dried, put on the castor oil, and then used a protected heating pad for 30 minutes. DMSO will transport anything through your skin so you don't want it to contact plastic or any other harmful chemical. I'm sure this substack will cover everything.
I’m going to try the mag and the dmso gel…thanks for posting.
thanks
Thank you so very much for this article. As a person who has read many medical studies for the last several decades, (in an effort to mitigate disease progression) I relish all the information you present in your articles as they are far more helpful, easy to parse with astoundingly practical information. Would that all in the medical field were so thorough and seemingly caring about our actual health. You make me wish I lived in the midwest so as to find a doctor who actually understood what many once believed health care should entail. Thank you for all your time, I pray you know how very grateful I am(and I am certain so many others).
Does anyone have experience using DMSO to resolve sciatica?
yes
Thank you so much for your invaluable research! I have nephew with cerebral palsy. I wonder if he may benefit from DMSO treatment. I may try an oral approach with the Merimex formula.
God bless your effort!
amazing and so well researched thank you for the work you do
Thank you!
After reading this I got a tub of 70/30 gel and applied it to my sons feet three times per day. He was riding his skateboard barefoot and crunched his toes under his feet. No broken bones.
Within three days he said he felt no pain or discomfort at all. For the sort of injury it was it seemed like the sort of thing which would take weeks to stop hurting and for all discomfort to end for a sixteen year old!
Wound repair study #1 underway...
The more I kept reading the more upset I got at the "powers that be" at the FDA, and the state of the medical field in general. It seems that there is now a lost art of the practice of medicine and healing and we have morphed into a group beholden to the pharmaceutical companies. Also, as I kept reading, I kept thinking of the possibilities for using this in the eye. (I'm an optometrist) We've always been told that there is no treatment for central retinal artery occlusion, but now I'm wondering if this could work, along with so many other ocular conditions. (BRVO,BRAO, DBR, AMD and the list goes on)!
Thank you so much for the hundreds of hours you must pour into all your careful research and writings. Since COVID, the scales have fallen from my eyes and in reading your articles I continue to expand my knowledge. Thank you again, you are truly a blessing!
One of the DMSO articles will focus on what it can do for the eyes.
60 minutes interview with Stanley Jacobs
Poor quality https://youtu.be/IUl5apll92U?si=1tEtNjyHkpBMY55F
Veterinary medicine widely uses DMSO. I had a downed draft horse (stuck down - no illness) that we only got up on her feet with the help of the fire department, and vet said he didn’t know if she would make it but gave her injections of DMSO, and we put some in her feed for several days. She had that garlic smell but she survived. It really was miraculous.
Thank you! Looking forward to the rest of your series. With regards to allergies or intolerances to dmso I have read somewhere that most cases are a deficiency in molybdenum. While I don't understand the chemistry, it stands to reason since dmso is catalysed by molybdenum and maybe tungsten. Given how amazing dmso is, molybdenum supplementation would be worth a try for those who can't seem to tolerate dmso.
That is an interesting idea I'll need to research.
I am wondering the same thing! I can't take Sam-e or MSM because I get a rash or become nauseated. Years ago when I was put on a sulfa antibiotic, I threw up so much they had to prescribe prednisone to stop the reaction. I really want to try DMSO, however I don't know enough about chemistry to know if I will react. I also read about Molybdenum and am taking 25mcg in a Core Minerals supplement that Dr. Collin of the Townsend Letter prescribed (before he retired, sadly). Not sure if that is high enough. Regardless, I need to try dmso for a neck injury that is getting worse as I age. Does anyone have an opinion if DMSO is different enough from MSM biochemically? And when I do a trial, what would be a reasonable dosage and method?
I too am severely allergic to sulfa antibiotics, however I use DMSO topically with no reactions whatsoever. I haven't tried taking internally yet, but I may after reading some more articles on it.
Wonderful information! I shared with a friend whose son has a spinal cord injury.
Thanks. Great info...
Dear Midwestern Doctor,
Thank you so much for all of your priceless writings. They are invaluable. You are one of my very favorite Substack writers.
Do you think that DMSO would work for
Primary progressive aphasia? My previously super healthy girlfriend started developing this a few years ago. She has deteriorated a lot, so it may even be too late. I will continue to listen to your Substack columns on this subject. If you can’t answer my specific question, thank you anyway.
May God bless you and your work. 🙏💜🙏
Karen, RN
It might, too hard to say without knowing the person (but there were cases of stroke victims having aphasia improve after DMSO). If it's a vaccine injury, she may also want to do one of the protocols.
Thank you so much! 🙏💜🙏
Out of 5 grown children, 4 have either severe OCD, anxiety, schizophrenia and now marijuana addiction- if DMSO can help even one of them a little I’ll be eternally grateful.
Oh Dear! You are working very, very hard! Send ding prayers & blessings for all of you!!❤️🙏
It's bizarre, but I swear ingesting DMSO is helping me with cravings / addiction. I can't tell you how or why, it's just like - when I have that in my system - the thought of those awful things (mostly foods) I crave = turns me off.
Dear Midwest Doc -- or ANYONE,
Have you knowledge of any success with using DMSO to relieve adhesive arachnoiditis of the lower spine (unfortunately getting worse) from a botched birth / labor epidural? A young mother could have her life saved, if so.
I could see it working, especially if it was injected correctly, but I don't know of any examples where that was tried. I vaguely remembering hearing of someone fixing this with a skilled bodyworker who could separate the two layers again but I'm not sure how you'd go about finding someone to do it.
My 26 year old son had bone cancer at age 17. Distal femur. Chemo and surgery, titanium prosthetic knee. Quite successful surgery, good range of motion afterwards. But over the years, his range of motion has lessened to where can barely bend his knee. I suspect adhesions but could be inflammation as he has put on weight. Would DMSO offer any benefit?
OMG, this is awesome stuff. Thanks.
I so appreciate this article as I deal with chronic pain. I purchased the 70 % DMSO liquid and also the gel from Jacob Lab to try. But on both bottles it says not to take internally and also that no medical applications to the body are advised. I'm guessing it's because it's not FDA approved but I'm fine with that. Could you comment?
Thank you!
Correct. Also, the gel is not taken internally.
Terrific, detailed and spirited piece... Thanks so much...
What could be the potential mechanism(s) of such broad benefits?
The ability to penetrate cell membranes makes me wonder whether DMSO (simplistically) functions as an improved small building block of cell membranes, improving their basic functions that have been damaged perhaps by PUFAs, poor nutrition, or other modern problems.
It also improves "flow" (qi?) (zeta potential?) which heals, as well.
This was so very interesting and I have soooo many questions! Any evidence of it helping Autism? What about muscular pain? Any books you recommend?
Given the effect on down syndrome, it should help with ASD as well. I'm going to give it a go with my youngest. Other things can help too, like Quercetin, B vitamins, and Red/infrared light.
Yes! My grandson has autism and I was wondering the same thing It breaks my heart to see him graduated from school, holed up in his room without social life & unable to find a job.
Mine too. Freshman at a large university this fall. Yes, he has some struggles. His personality makes it hard to make friends. He’s also trans (sadly) but hasn’t reached out yet to the support groups there. I hope he does. He is very talented in 2 fields. I worry about him all the time.
Did you read the article? There's a section relating to autism and similar problems.
Yes. But he is 18 and there will be no interest in doing anything. I have no sway in this at all. My daughter ignores my health information, and since they are all adults there I guess they are on their own. I don’t like it but it is what it is at this point.
I’ve read that chlorine dioxide helps with autism. Ever hear of the documentary, “The Universal Antidote” ?
https://theuniversalantidote.com/
Just saw your reply. I haven’t heard of it but will definitely check out your link. Thx
Check out videos and info Kerri Riveria for autism
Kerri Rivera - Mom, Holistic & Autism Expert-1st 25 minutes is about CD… https://odysee.com/@VaultOfSecrecy:5/Kerri-Rivera-Chlorine-Dioxide-Reverses-Autism:b. - https://kerririvera.com
Simply superb! Well done, MwD! Appreciate your hard work and voice.
Thank you
Thank you! I'm too tired to read all of this right now. (and you have 3 more sections?? Gonna need a summarized version! But I will read it all.) Was up late last night reading about Chlorine Dioxide (made from sodium chlorite and an acid activator - citric acid, lemon juice, vinegar, etc). NASA seemed to sing high praises for it, but the FDA ran an "anti-bleach" campaign against it. It's used in water purification (and actually replaced bleach in that function!), and also used (in stronger concentrations) for sanitizing surfaces. You're diluting each component and only administering it in drops, with a ratio of 1:5 (dissolved sodium chlorite to 10% solution of citric acid) and waiting 3 or so minutes before adding more water and ingesting.
I was wondering if you're covering this at some point.
Yes, I just didn't prioritize it because others have written about it.
My friend has been experimenting with putting DMSO on the meridians in the hopes that it travels through them to the areas they feed. We also have the idea that shining the red light therapy on it right after application might help - the hypothesis is that if DMSO can contain the radiant energy of light like water does, maybe it'll carry it through the skin and solve the issue of light energy having trouble getting through the skin barrier.
After writing this article, I found out that is often done in Germany.
I do red light therapy every other day and was also wondering if it would help carry DMSO in the body more effectively. (I use it on painful joints).
Thank you! I used DMSO topically on my arm when I had tendonitis and it totally went away. I have a question. I have hemifacial spasms on the left side of my face that started with eye twitching a few years ago. Now that side of my face spasms randomly and effects my mouth and cheek. I'm trying botox but sometimes look like I had a stroke. Most people with this condition opt for MVD (microvascular decompression which I don't want. I wonder if DMSO would help as this usually involves a vessel being compressed. My MRI was clear but not read by a neurosurgeon who is the only one to see the compressions.
It's rather simplistic, but have you tried magnesium supplementation?
did you have "covid' (aka animal venom) or the clot shots (ditto) or were you "shed" upon? and has it been since then?
No I didn’t have covid before that started. It started before covid. I did not take any vacs. There are a lot of (mostly women who have this). All, myself included have tried acupuncture, different vitamins and other alternative treatments to no avail. But I’m still looking.
Just saw your comment - they no longer come into my inbox most of the time. Another thought - it is possible that wireless radiation - esp close-range like a cellphone, laptop or wifi could cause this - it is well known to cause many neurological symptoms and diseases (if interested, check out Arthur Firstenberg's well-researched info).
How should CDS be taken in relation to topical or oral DMSO (for smell prevention)?
Would the oxidative properties of CDSs cancel out the way DMSO helps?
I will try to cover that later in the series
Jim Humble in his book on CDS, "MMS Health Recovery Guidebook" uses DMSO in most of his protocols. The simplest is 3 drops of activated MMS (CDS) with 9 drops of DMSO. 1 ml is approximately 20 drops. I recommend you get this book if you intend to use chlorine dioxide.
Agreed. Love Jim Humble.
My father in law has recently been diagnosed with gbm, I am so grateful for you writing this
I'm so sorry :(
Thank you!!
Wonderful article! First rate! I look forward to the next installment.
Thank you for all the hard work! I have been familiar with DMSO since 1981 because I have Interstitial Cystitis. I have had many bladder instillations that could have worked better if I could have “held” it in longer. I read a great book back then (Can’t remember the name) and DMSO did indeed seem a miracle product. Not surprising that it was banned except for IC. NO ONE wanted to be around me because of the garlic smell. Looking forward to more of your research.
My husband uses it intravesical for bladder cancer, very interesting results. However, no urologist will discuss, only naturopathic doctors.
My husband has just been diagnosed with bladder cancer. I’m trying to find different treatments. What is intravesical. The dictionary meaning just described it basically as a hollow organ container. How is the DMSO used in your husbands case?
The DMSO is combined with sterile saline and installed into the bladder via catheter. Highly recommend finding a naturopathic or integrative/functional medicine doctor for guidance. Prayers for you and your husband, we have been on this journey almost 4 years now, it can be exhausting, but certainly helps you to have gain perspective!
Thank you.
Hi. I am not familiar with the term inteavesical. Is that the same as an instillation?
Gosh I would think DMSO would be ver helpful.
I was surprised to see DMSO in a gel form and as a solvent at my healthfood store. Will be buying some soon.
So… the urologist so r do DMSO for your husband. My things have changed!
I haven’t seen a Dr about this IC I have for 25 years. I have learned through good discipline and nutrients to stay away and I almost had my bladder removed at one time when I was 35 yrs.
Hello Darlene, yes intravesical is an instillation via catheter. Slightly diluted with sterile saline. DMSO is approved for use for treatment of interstitial cystitis, it has a calming effect. We are trying to preserve his bladder with diet, supplementaion, lifestyle, off label drugs, etc. They never, just take the bladder, they take the lower lymph nodes, prostrate and portions of large and small intestines - if you follow standard of care. We know that 70-80% of our immune system resides in our gut, this practice makes no sense to us, and when we pray the Lord tells us that body mutilation is not of Him! We are trusting the Lord to show us the way that He will provide healing.
Typo… so the Urologist wouldn’t use DMSO for your husband?
No, the urologist wouldn’t use DMSO, no $$$ for big pharma. Not approved.
That is interesting as back in 80s my urologist used DMSO and silver nitrates ( which didn’t help) for his patients. At that time it was the only thing DMSO WAS APPROVED FOR. Wonder if you could do it yourself?
Major sports loved it for injuries but it was forbidden. Such a shame. I am sorry your husband has this to deal with. You are doing the best and believing God will heal him. Blessings
Yes, it does leave a strong garlic odor. I have used it in horses for various ailments that affect their central nervous system and one can smell it as soon as they enter the barn!
Thank you for the excellent article. I've understood the corruption of modern medicine for a long time now but when I learn about interventions like this that could have saved countless lives and reduced healing time, it still really rubs me the wrong way. I've already shared this with people that I know it will help and will continue sharing it.
The ultimate rebellion is personal excellence. Get yourself healthy and successful and help other people do the same to break reliance on these criminals.
I’ve already commented once but I wanted to ask if this is something that might help resolve neuropathy in my feet as a result of a shingles vaccine injury that caused peripheral Guillame-Barre. I appreciate all the work you do and this has been an eye opener.
Wait for the rest of the series!
I look forward to more of your series! I hope you identify flaws in at least a few studies that raise specific concerns about DMSO, e.g. deregulation of methylation:
Verheijen, M., Lienhard, M., Schrooders, Y. et al. DMSO induces drastic changes in human cellular processes and epigenetic landscape in vitro. Sci Rep 9, 4641 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-40660-0
MWD….. With the Medical Ind Complex lowering numbers with blood pressure and cholesterol (for what is healthy) I am wondering about the “numbers” being used to define pre-diabeties and diabeties. Seems like they want to put ppl on meds earlier in this area also. Any QUICK thoughts?
Agree with you completely, on the part about ever-lowering metrics that arbitrarily define when one has a “condition” requiring “treatment.” Just the same, don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. Medicine isn’t all about greed and useless products or services; they actually do offer some valuable stuff. Ideally one needs to separate the wheat from the chaff. Case in point:
The following is heavily informed from Taubes books:
I’ve seen the criticism, possibly valid from people like you who suspect that “pre-diabetes” is a new diagnosis from the ever profit-seeking medical-industrial complex. Their endless quest for reasons to peddle more treatments and sell patients expensive drugs is certainly worthily of suspicion, but hold on a second.
If Taubes is correct in his several books, metabolic syndrome is a serious chronic health condition affecting many people (indeed, perhaps a majority of the population!). It’s associated with numerous health problems, the most common being obesity, [pre-]diabetes, high blood pressure and many more. Where Taubes and most doctors would part company, of course, is in the opinion of what the proper treatment would be. The MIC would prefer the patient attempt a useless diet, and when that fails, go on a bunch of Rx drugs, perhaps for life. They’d certainly disapprove of what Taubes would recommend, which would be some version of a keto diet absent in refined carbs and especially sugar. The MIC wouldn’t like that because such a diet is “high fat” and as we all know, fat is a main cause of heart disease and sugar has been exonerated repeatedly by the FDA and USDA as a potential health risk. The MIC as usual is very late to the party; the potential issues had been known for decades but metabolic syndrome is recognized as a valid issue but (so far as I know) still not a mainstream diagnosis. Thus, "pre-diabetes" is indeed a potentially serious condition but opinions differ on how best to address it.
Thanks Doorknob.
I am so excited to have come across this. This is all so new to me and my non-medical mind. I am reading and re-reading and learning so much.
My sister is labeled under the autism spectrum. Her disability results from childhood immunization in the 1970s before autism was even a label. Can her brain be unlocked? I think it can. The Zeta Potential? Protein mis-folding? DMSO? Wondering about soaking her feet in DMSO? Would adding magnesium flakes be good with DMSO? We are doing Perry Nicolston's six point lymph drainage technique. I am holding on to hope.
Yes, the brain can heal itself if the toxins are removed (drained) and the body/brain are given the right conditions (proper animal based nutrition and plenty of sunlight). Keep at it.
Brett Favre testified before the Ways and Means Committee and said that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's. You can probably get to him. It would be good to see if DMSO could help him in his journey and because of his fame, if helpful, could be a huge plus for DMSO.
I replied to his post on X with a link to this article. Have no idea if he read my post.
Wednesday evening after reading this article I tried drinking about an ounce of DMSO with water at 50:50 and had to add more water until I could stomach it. The result was I haven't slept in the same room with my wife since! I spent 30 minutes in our pool last night hoping the chloring might dissipate the smell that appears to be emanating from my body (I can't smell it). This morning (Friday) she said it wasn't as bad. I don't know if it's just wearing off or if the chlorine had any effect.
Hence why that's DMSO's notorious side effect. It poses no risk to your health though and people who really needed DMSO would time when they took it so that didn't mess up their social life or marriage.
Could diet make a difference? Could some people smell worse due to the release of toxins? Also, women tend to have a more heightened sense of smell, could it be that too?
Diet probably makes a huge difference. Switching to a carnivore / animal based diet, eliminated almost all body odor, even after vigorous workouts.
As an LPN, soon to be RN, that wants to promote real health instead of passing pills, I read everything you write avidly. I work in a rehab hospital- Mary Free Bed. After reading this, I realize how much it can help many patients I care for. I'm interested in the story of how the FDA shut it down and is there anything I can do to promote this?
That will become more clear as the series comes out.
Arthritis started for me around age 25. I have since had 5 surgeries (back, hip x 2, feet x 2) for those problems. I first heard of DMSO my last year of dental school ~ 1978-79, but was unable to get it because of practitioner fears.
I had forgotten about it until this article. This is all great news and I am looking forward to the rest of the story!
I hope DMSO will work for tinnitus & systemic joint pain due to osteoarthritis. With progressing pain in many joints I am guessing that oral ingestion would work best.
Thank you for all of this information, it is greatly appreciated.
Do you take boron? It helps joint pain quickly. In a few weeks.
I also add boron to my mag salts baths.
Dr. Doctor, you are a treasure. I'm trying to help my husband live. He's only recently been willing to give alternative medicine any thought, mostly because he's now been told he has 4-12 months to live. He has an aortic aneurism. He is too frail to survive surgery. He has CKD stage 3b and liver cirrhosis. He has hepatorenal syndrome and hepatic encephalopathy. Believe it or not, I could go on. He also has a history of taking 4000 mg Tylenol daily plus omeprazole and taking steroid injections for his multiple orthopedic problems which in turn turned his bones very brittle... I think at least half of this is due to his involvement with corporate medicine and bad OTC meds. I don't know where to begin. Could you point me in a good direction to start? (After reading every word you write?)
Thank you extremely much!
You don't want to overload him with too many things to do but some combination of:
•UVBI (in UVBI article)
•Manganese and Zinc and Vitamin C for his blood vessels (in heart disease and blood pressure article)
•Zeta potential regimen (in zeta potential regimen--mostly just RO water and zeta aid)
•Good amino acid supplementation (might need IV, but otherwise Professional Formulas amino acid complex).
•Maybe DMSO
•Maybe Boron
and a good liver/kidney peptide regimen (which requires you to find someone that knows how to do this and spaces them out so its only a few per month)
Thank you tremendously. This is more than a start.
Thank you so much for all you do. Mind blowing post - both for its information and the revelation of this life-saving drug's suppression. On that note, I was confused why I wasn't getting any posts from my favorite Substack authors or naturopathic providers. Turns out they had all been relegated to the email junk file on my iCloud account - which is where I found this post. Hmmm... I've since added everyone to my contact list to see if it resolves the issue.
That's why I put so much work into this one.
i also did not get this article in my inbox, had to go searching for it - and i do not have icloud
DMSO and eczema. My adult daughter is suffering from extreme eczema. She's quit steroids because they just ceased to work and is now suffering from steroid withdrawal syndrome in addition to her eczema. Does anyone have any experience of using DMSO for eczema?
Obviously, given its potential to irritate skin then there's a potential issue with using it topically however I came across this publication which claims that a mixture of DMSO, honey and water reduces these issues. Could taking DMSO orally possibly work?
If anyone or the MWD has any experience or knowledge of this subject I'd be very grateful.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US7790928B1/en
Thanks
This will be covered in a later article.
You are a hero if you can help eczema/psoriasis suffers.
I control my psoriasis flare ups with Retin A. I discovered it by getting some to put on an old age spot. Decided that since nothing the dermatologist had prescribed worked for my psoriasis, I might as well put some on that too. Imagine my delight when a patch of psoriasis i had on my wrist for 8+ years totally went away!!!! I tell everyone about it!
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/dmso-revolutionizes-skin-care-and
Article on skin issues
Thanks Carol. The article doesn’t really say very much about eczema however my daughter scratches her skin quite a lot and she’s worried about applying DMSO on broken skin. To quote from the article “Individuals with eczema are not more sensitive to DMSO (unless the skin is already irritated).”
Perhaps you could clean the skin in a less irritated area and apply DMSO.
When I had eczema, I had about 30 different potions, lotions. None worked.
Some helped.
Misery. I am so sorry.
Thanks Carol. We’ll give it a go
Try Dead Sea salt/epson salt bath. I use about 4 cups total/bath. Warm water, soak 20 min., cover as much of body as possible. Do not rinse. Every day. I am so sorry she is suffering. It is brutal and cruel.
I personally would recommend rinsing after an epsom soak, bec the skin could be detoxing while in the bath. Yes you’ll lose some Mg but you cd wash off with a wash cloth, then rinse, then add Mg back onto skin as you dry off, via a lotion or roller bottle. I’d think that’s safer than not rinsing at all. But it cd be negligible difference either way, I don’t have stats on that, just a gut feeling and knowledge of detoxing thru our skin. :-)
Thanks Jessica. When my daughter goes in the sea it really helps the eczema but for some reason the Dead Sea Salts aren’t as effective.
I think rinsing is fine too.
Are you on any of the Facebook steroid withdrawal groups? I think we should start a thread there, see if anyone has tried this. my son is now 11 yrs steroid free, but growth was definitely stunted from the hpa axis suppression and the hearing loss during withdrawal has caused residual learning issues as well. I am going to try some of this topically on the back of his neck to help the hormones and brain inflammation. would be good to have a dialogue about this in the groups. we could then report back to AMD...
I'm going to do it for me for my post concussion symptoms and frequent pain.
Thanks. Yes, she’s on the groups and I’ve asked her if anyone has mentioned this before. Awaiting answer.
Thank you so much for this! I have been intrigued by the benefits of DMSO for over a year, and I'm very eager to read the next two parts of your writing on this. My particular interest has to do with chronic inflammation. My husband has the worst of this problem with a low back That becomes progressively painful during standing or walking. My inflammation is in my neck from an old injury which crushed the disc, both knees after suffering torn meniscus which were surgically repaired, a hip that appears to have arthritis when seen with an MRI, and a mid back region that flares after about 15 minutes of kitchen work. I would love to know more about dosage and frequency of application for ailments such as these in terms of both topical and oral routes, since I have no training in giving injections. Heartfelt blessings to you as always for being a source of wisdom That has helped me to achieve better health and well-being for myself and family members!
The reason DMSO became so popular is because there were a lot of people in your husband's situation it essentially fixed
I am a 60 year old Air Force veteran with advanced Parkinson’s disease with DBS maxed out after just two years. I’ve had 18 heart attacks and 16 heart surgeries (quad bypass at 45, atherectomies, stents and catheters). c3-c7 laminectomy/laminaplasty for fractures and injuries resulting from injuries. Muscle atrophy from pinched nerves, dx Asperger’s as a child after vaccines that killed my younger brother (SIDS), 4 documented vaccine reactions (ER or doctors visits), and a lot of other medical issues and surgeries. I took statins from 24 years old after Iraq and first heart attack until Parkinson’s diagnosis and your statin articles with no chest pain for over a year now. I still backpack and powerlifting, manual labor around my mini farm with pretty good results with my PD progressing very fast. Lifetime of fitness seems to have paid off. My neurology team at the va seems to believe, based on my progression, I will be in a wheelchair with a feeding tube and severely disabled in 2-4 years. I agree based on my history with PD to date. No genetic markers for PD but I had known exposures to TCE and burn pits during Desert Storm. I believe statins thru mitochondrial impairment likely accelerated my PD. DMSO sounds promising. How do I find a doc to help with IV dosing or would oral be good? I am still backpacking but getting worse weekly and have no VA or Vanderbilt acceptable medical treatments left and I doubt they will help with dmso.
From all the information provided in this article, I understand that DMSO can be very interesting in the treatment of post-viral conditions, such as ME/CFS, FM, MCAS and POTS, since they all seem to have hypo perfusion, brain inflammation, low ATP production, blood clotting and amyloidosis traits. Are there any studies on these conditions and on the use of DMSO as a treatment?
I have DMSO at 70% at home, from a reliable lab, and would like to give it a try, starting at 0.05g/kilo weight. Since I don’t drink fruit juice, would it be too horrible to dilute it in osmotized water? Should I start with one dose, early in the morning? Do I need to avoid food for a certain period of time, after ingesting the DMSO? If my DMSO is at 70%, do I need to make a dilution of it, till I get it to 20%, and then calculate the 0.05g/kilo?
So many questions! 😅
Can anyone shed light on any of these, please?
New to DMSO and have a bottle. I’ve used it mixed 50/50 with distilled water for achy joints and burning pain in wrist. It seems to have mostly taken care of it. Is there a protocol for tinnitus and vision improvement such as floaters that really impair my vision now.
Also interested in tinnitus and floaters 🙋♀️
What dilution is your DMSO? I have a 70% DMSO bottle at home and I’m also going to give it a try.
You’re the best of the best, doc. And you’ve now become my first (& only) paid subscription. I can’t thank you enough for all you do! 🙏🏻
Thank you, I try!
Dear Mid wester dr. I have terrible eye floaters. Any suggestions for how to treat these?
I think you could try rubbing castor oil on your eyelids before your sleep.
Thank you for this in depth article, for helping us reclaim safe and effective medical treatments which were wrongly taken from us.
Thank you, thank you for another outstanding article! What you are sharing is priceless. I had two questions/comments, while reading. 1: DMSO attacks some metals. Would the needle of the siringe /infusion not be a problem? Or do we have to deal with a lesser evil here, since there is no alternative? 2: What about DMSO enemas? I find that often enemas are a close second to infusions. Plus: they are easier to administer by patients themselves. Obviously, one would need to make sure that the plastic of the enema gear is compatible with DMSO.
The issue wasn't the metal needle but rather the plastic that was connected to it. That said, it is a lesser of two evils situation and that primarily matters at the higher concentrations.
Thanks so much for sharing your experience!
Also there are DMSO resistant plastics that can be used for the syringe materials.
Katia…I too am curious about DMSO enemas since it can get into the bloodstream quickly through the portal vein/ hepatic system. But I too worry about the plastic in any enema device. I hope someone can help us flesh out this idea.
Hi J, There are plastics considered safe with DMSO. When I have some time, I might research into enema kits that are safe. It might not be that easy to find out what the hose/tube is made of. The bucket should have an inscription on the bottom. There are vintage glass enema buckets. But the problem with the tube remains. On the other hand, the cap on my DMSO glass bottle is also plastic. It is hard to avoid.
Exactly, the tube is the concern. I would think it’d be the same concern for IV usage?
exactly.
I wish to join the many voices here thanking the writer profusely for this labor of love. I knew about DMSO but had no idea what an important medicine it is. This series provides so much detail and so much supporting data. It's a wonderful resource. I do have one question about drug interactions -- I noticed you mentioned DMSO's effect on platelet aggregation. Is it important to exercise caution in patients using anticoagulants? I care for an elderly stroke patient who uses Eliquis, and while I'm very anxious to find out whether he would benefit from IV DMSO therapy (if we can find a provider) I'm wondering whether there is any concern about combining DMSO with a blood thinner (or any other medications, for that matter.) I hope to hear from you. Many thanks again for a masterful article series.
I can see a lot of arguments in either direction, and ultimately, I can't answer the question because the data was never collected to assess that topic. If I had to guess I think it's more likely to not be an issue.
Gosh, thank you for your response. Your points about how protective DMSO is (especially to the blood vessels) made me think the same. So far we have only done topical applications, and I think he might be responding already, after only two treatments. Obviously that could be wishful thinking. Have you seen people respond so quickly when they are already months out from a severe stroke? And have you shared with your audience what the subject matter of the third installment will be? I'm looking forward to it. Thank you again
Yes. However, for strokes DMSO is typically done orally or IV, so if there's a response with topical that is a great sign!
Given that DMSO is a solvent, is there a concern for patients with implantable devices such as a pacemaker? Is it possible that DMSO in the blood could leach toxins from the device?
That will be discussed in the article going out this weekend
Does one need to avoid DMSO whether topically, orally or through IV is they have a dental implant? And what tpical cream of gel do you recomment purchasing?
It may be an over-simplification, but there seems to be an underlying principle(s) running through Zeta potential, physiological charges and currents, the gel state of water and DMSO which is alien to modern mainstream medicine (and science.)
That's why I started this newsletter!
I wonder if DMSO exhibits some sort of gel state
or if it modified the gel state in some way
Thank you for the excellent and ongoing information. How modern medicine has fallen into control by big Pharma. I am so thankful for you.
Do you know if any studies have been done using DMSO topically on people with Hyper Mobile EDS? You mentioned using topically on people with varicose veins. . . just curious. Trying to look at all options/possibilities for my daughter who has EDS.
I do not know. As said in another article, the thing they really need is manganese.
I an in Australia and already have DMSO, bought it from here www.dmso.com.au , hopefully a good product. I will begin using it for diagnosed brain bleed to repair damage hopefully
I appreciate you and your work so much AMWD!!
💕 Thank you💕
Thank you so much for all you do, you are a true blessing to our family and we use this knowledge to educate ourselves, in our journey towards better health, and avoid at all costs the need to participate in the medical system. All of your articles have helped us tremendously as I and the kids are injured in a myriad of ways from unnecessary / counterproductive surgeries, childhood and other vaccines (we had wizened up, thankfully, to this in time to avoid the Covid Vax disaster), and Covid vax shedding. We are currently doing Andrew Cutler chelation (DMSA and ALA - 4 days on and 4 days off) and am wondering if/how DMSO interacts with DMSA or ALA in this process. If I use DMSO for neurological treatment from the earlier vaccines, I would think to only apply (likely just topically to the head) on the days we are not chelating with DMSA/ALA. Please let me know if you have any cautions or recommendations you would have in this situation. Incidentally, I am aiming to set up a UVBI clinic in our small mid-west town, as I believe our family along with so many other people can benefit from this treatment. Thank you and sending our love to you!
Jenny, I too am thinking about creating a UVBI clinic where as live as the nearest location is a 4 hour drive one way! I’m curious are you a nurse or doctor? Are you connected with one or are you able to do this kind of treatment without being a nurse/doctor? How do you plan to execute treatments to others?
i am wondering if any of your family have had any bad reactions to dmsa - i ended up putting a skull and crossbones on my bottle of it as a warning to others . . .
Interesting article. You can't bottle sunshine so we ignore the value of vitamin D. DMSO can be bottled but it is cheap! The following statement on DMSO is interesting.
DMSO is a commercially manufactured dipolar aprotic solvent which is also a naturally occurring substance. It is apparently a part of earth’s complex sulfur cycle. DMSO is created in the atmosphere at a rate of 20-60 billion pounds per year from dimethyl sulfide, which is produced by metabolic processes in soil and sediments
How they figured out 20-60 billion pounds are produced naturally is beyond my understanding. It raises the question if DMSO is responsible for spontaneous healing?
On another topic, it is my understanding that if you inject cortisone immediately upon spinal injury that may cause paralysis, that the cortisone protects the nerves from being destroyed by the iron in bleeds.
My doctor friend who was a pathologist claimed he convinced the NFL physicians to use it immediately if a player had a severe back injury.
Comments please.
The evidence using steroids in those situations is very weak, whereas the evidence for DMSO is much stronger. The primary source of DMSO is as a byproduct of wood pulping.
In other contexts "canned sunshine" is a product you hope you will never, ever see in your lifetime.
very interesting, thanks
I got COVID in Sept of 2022. Have suffered from progressive bilateral peripheral neuropathy (numbness) to the bottom of both feet since. It started at the heels and progressed forward to the toes over the course of a year. Would DMSO applied topically to the bottom of feet be helpful potentially? What concentration would be appropriate?
Likely yes. Will cover in another part of series.
Ah, that answers my previously posted question about PN. Looking forward to that post!
Hello! Thank you for this article. I’ve become a paid subscriber because of it. I have a question I hope you can help with. Can DMSO be taken alongside psychiatric medication?
I can't give a clear answer on that one (too many thing to take into consideration). In the case of some (e.g., benzos) it will make their effects stronger. I don't know how it interacts with SSRIs or antipsychotics. Conversely, it will also has a good shot of decreasing the need for the medications.
Thank you. One more question - could it prevent or reverse necrosis of the bladder caused by ketamine addiction? (Very complicated story - my daughter 😞)
Many thanks for the info and the way it is presented, so one is provided with enough knowledge to search a possible solution for a specific medical issue, untreatable by standard procedures. My case, large BCC, nonresponsive to imiquimod, BEC-5. Your article resulted in finding a book mentioning combined use of DMSO and laetrile:
https://biosil.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/DMSO-Handbook-4.pdf
plus an article on combination of DMSO with vit C:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358848391_Randomized_trial_of_topical_ascorbic_acid_in_DMSO_versus_imiquimod_for_the_treatment_of_basal_cell_carcinoma
I’ve tried BEC-5 without success for multiple BCC and SCC so tried FEN/IVER paste with DMSO without success and several different essential oils and Gallixa with DMSO with maybe mild results. I’m currently trying 35% Hydrogen Peroxide without DMSO but will be adding that after reading this article. I’m curious to know of your results with the Laetrile.
https://journalotohns.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40463-020-00433-6
https://cancercommons.org/latest-insights/all-clear-follow-up-hydrogen-peroxide-appears-to-treat-oral-and-skin-lesions/
Several years ago I treated SCC with BEC-5 and obtained good results. But after a while, bleeding started at the same spot and treating with BEC-5 didn't work. Neither did a pasta with DMSO and DCA, nor local products. So I visited a dermatologist and the biopsy was BCC. The advice was operation but I don't think that will work well for a 4" area. Hence my ongoing search, another discovery was Boswellia sacra, see
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274338503_Management_of_basal_cell_carcinoma_of_the_skin_using_frankincense_Boswellia_sacra_essential_oil_A_case_report
I intend to use that first but with addition of DMSO, VitC and Laetrile taken orally.
I have used H2O2 as well, but in a concentration of ~10% wich turned normal skin white but did nothing on the tumor tissue.
I used black salve for such a problem on myself and my friends have done same. Coincidentally, DMSO is part of the black salve recipe, used as a penetrant for the active ingredients.
I haven't tried that yet but in the meanwhile found something that apparently worked for many: crushed broccoli (procedure appears to work better with the sprouts):
https://hpathy.com/clinical-cases/a-simple-natural-topical-treatment-for-basal-cell-carcinoma-squamous-cell-carcinoma-and-maybe-others/
I haven't heard of broccoli sprouts (sulforaphane) being used for carcinomas. It is very effective with some other cancers. If you do want to do this, freeze the sprouts as soon as you harvest as this increases sulforaphane greatly.
Broccoli sprouts unavailable here nor the seeds to produce them. The broccoli available is a variant produced to cope with the all-year 12 hours daylight, high altitude regions in the tropics. The alternative to use mustard powder to improve myrosinase required for sulforophane production won't work either as it lowers pH to a level causing the BCC area to become painful enough to prevent treatment. Same issue with alkaline topical treatment.
I'm confused when you give g/kg rates for a 100 % pure liquid product. Does that information refer to a powdered form?
So for PO administration you're suggesting a 20% dilution of 99.9% pure dmso?
I have used 70% dmso topically for years. Truly a miracle for exercise recovery, injuries, and improved circulation!!
mg/kg or g/kg is the standard way doses are written. You have to convert volume to grams of DMSO present, which is largely dependent on what the starting DMSO concentration of your substance is.
At first I thought your dosing was referring to grams per kg of body weight!
I'm used to working with mg/ml concentrations. Banamine is 50 mg/ml concentration and the equine dosage is .5 mg/lb. Dose for 1000# horse is 10cc. So for dmso if the concentration is (essentially) 100%, how do you determine the mg/ml concentration? (V)(%)=(V)(%)?
DMSO weighs 1.1014 gram per cubic centimeter (ml) so if you have equal volume of DMSO and water, you'd get a 52.41% DMSO mixture.
Wikipedia says 1.1004 g⋅cm−3. Somebody lyin' 😎 As a card-carrying member of the lackadaisical club, permit me to make the case that approximation is (usually) adequate with dosing, especially when potency or toxicity is not a paramount issue.
So concentration is 11 mg/ml? (1.1g/ml x 1000= 1100mg/100 ml=11 mg/ml, where a 100% solution is equivalent to 100g/100ml. Is that correct?
Isn't it 1100mg per ml?
yes
I'm using this equation https://www.veterinaryinternalmedicinenursing.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-calculations. But my chemistry is rusty that's why I was asking...
I'm trying to work through the math, how many grams of dmso would be present in pure dmso?
How specifically do you use DMSO for exercise recovery? Internally? Externally? Both?
Thats in a later part of this
70 % dilution (99% dmso + distilled water in a glass spray bottle). Apply to affected areas once a day and rub in. I haven't tried orally yet but plan to.
HI AMD,
One more question. You mention in this article that evidence supports using methylene blue for TBI recovery. I am curious if you have any thoughts about the effectiveness of methylene blue for mitochondrial repair as it compares to the efficacy of DMSO for this purpose. Thanks!
I don't have much familiarity or experience with methylene blue.
It's amazing stuff. Been using for 4 years. Knocks covid/colds/flu'c out in 2-3 days
Chris MasterJohn did an exceptional report on methylene blue.
How do I convert 3.5 grams to teaspoons, drops, etc... of 100% DMSO for starting dose? Thanks.
Dearest MWD,
You are the reason my husband recovered from a stroke 11 months ago. I have no words to thank you!
Now I have a different dilema involving a 54 yo autistic male with severe social withdrawal and language problems. I saw your incredible case studies on Down's Syndrome.
Is there any reason to suspect that DMSO would not also help this poor soul?
What would you suggest as a treatment plan?
Many thanks in advance.
Btw, I am your biggest and most vocal fan!♥️
It's really odd, but no one has tried DMSO for autism so I don't actually know (and I've looked). So any protocol would essentially be a guess. Drinking, ideally with amino acids, might help if they can tolerate it.
It is odd isn’t it? But from the b+w photos of the Down Syndrome boy who was transformed with DMSO, my guess is that those studies were probably done about 20-30 years before autism became an epidemic.
Now it’s time to see what DMSO can do for autism. 💪
I managed to find a few studies on PubMed where autistic children up to age 18 were given copious amounts of injectable vitamin B12 (methylcobalamin) plus methylfolate. The studies were small and there was no real follow up. But the initial feedback from the caretakers was encouraging.
Which amino acids specifically should his parents buy for him? I heard from a homeopath that fish oils are very helpful as well.
Many thanks!
To help with mild dementia is IV the only protocol? or recipe for taking it orally if that would also work. I'm also losing a lot of hair, so I do put it on my head at night at about 70%.... Please and Thank you. This is a wonderful article as all of yours are, and so appreciated.
APPRECIATE YOUR STUPENDOUS WORK FOR OUR WELFARE HERE.
So many are benefiting and living far more healthily than they have for years. Many suffering or experiencing the suffering of other loved ones which is another type of suffering, are finding efficacious options our Medical Complex has hidden or destroyed in their selfish agendas geared towards profit.
With those rare physicians as you it seems the PLANDEMIC has provided opportunities for networking and info-sharing unlike any other of modern time. For those of us suffering iatrophobia...You're a God-Send.🌹🙏🏻
Doc, your info on DMSO is amazing. Very helpful for my knees and shoulders that I've trashed for over 77 years.
But the stink! I have been applying a 70% solution as well as taking a tsp in grape juice daily.
Any tips for minimizing the odor? Use it at night? Only apply topically? Only take by mouth? Rinse it off after an hour or so? HELP!
I dont smell it on myself, but others can smell it. I dont want to stop if I can avoid it.
I subscribed because of the DMSO articles, but I was wondering if you had any thoughts on LDN?
Also interested 🙋♀️
I wish you were my doctor.
I’m looking for advice on using DMsO in the ear that I had shingles in.
I’ve lost hearing and even after 12 years, my ear is still painful.
Do you have info on dropper bottles that are safe droppers for use with dmso,,,, I know about the tube part of the dropper to be glass,, along with the bottle but,,, what about the bulb part of the dropper,,,, are they ok or not,,, if not,,,, can you inform me of a dropper product that is completely safe using dmso,,,.
Thanks
Can you please add one more thing to your list. Why are Neurologists so useless in treating cognitive decline. And now a BIG THANK YOU. My husband has cognitive decline/Alzheimers?
I have learned more from you on on how to treat it then the Neurologist we are seeing. From you I found out about Lupron and Prolia, two injections his urologist had him on. Also UBI and DMSO for the brain and just the encouragement to keep looking for treatments. This is what the neurologist has done so far:
Given him an Montreal Cognitive assessment test.
A Cat scan and MRI of the brain
A genetic test for Alzheimers
A blood test to look for amyloid Plaque
told to drink a gallon of water a day and wait until you decline more than we will put you on drugs.
This is what we have done thanks to you:
Found a Functional Medicine Doctor to test his hormones, found the Lupron had totally depleted his testosterone.
Also tested his microbiome found issues and treated those.
Did a nutraEval to test nutrient absorbtion added supplements as needed.
Found a naturopathic doctor that started him on UBI treatments and brain and other supplements.
The MRI showed he may have had a slight stroke so I have him rub DMSO on his head
Made an already healthy diet( I have a degree in nutrition) even healthier.
Went to a biological dentist and had 4 infected root canals removed. Used DMSO in healing
Started an exercise program- often taking 2 classes a day including Tia Chi and walks and lifts weights.
And again thanks to you we now drink and use in cooking reverse osmosis water.
His naturopathic doctor after testing his sodium, just started him on adrenal support.
My husband, much to the Nuerologist surprise has not declined any from the last 6 months and I have seen improvements. He still struggles with memory, but he can still function.
If you know of anything else to do, that would be helpful. Again thank you, just reading your column gives me strength to fight on when I get very little encouragement from family or friends. Unbelievable how many are brain washed by the medical establishment.
Dear AMD, thank you so much for all you do for us! I am not sure if this has been asked before: Could you use DMSO daily for life as a preventative? I have many health issues (ME/CFS, POTS, PEM, brain fog, 100s of keratotic lesions, dental issues, vision issues, chronic sinus inflammation, edema, varicose vein, weak connective tissues, joint pain, infertility, shedding induced menopause, etc.), and am more stable through a very strict diet. I am considering trying DMSO to help with those issues (especially for the brain/nerve inflammation from ME/CFS, the 20+ year sinus inflammation, gum inflammation). But once an issue has resolved, would you keep applying DMSO, or just keep taking it internally? And given DMSO's miraculous results, if by any chance I can heal many of those issues, do I keep taking it? I have also read from a spiritual healer that those keratotic lesions are basically toxins that the body has transported to the skin - so by applying DMSO topically wouldn't all those toxins get transported back into the system and re-poison me? With only a few of those lesions I would definitely apply DMSO, but since I have so many I am a little bit worried. Btw. I am only 53, but have been sick with ME/CFS + edema for over 40 years. Many thanks!!!
Also dealing with ME/CFS, FM, MCAS and POTS, for over 24 years, and worse after three mild bouts of covid and unvaccinated. I already have the 70% bottle of DMSO and trying to understand how to take it orally, by first diluting it to 20% and then starting dosing at 0.05g/kilo weight in water. A bit complicated.
Dear Cristina, I am so sorry to hear that you are also dealing with these health issues :( I have been doing the Medical Medium protocol (Anthony William), and it has really helped me. Some of my symptoms have healed (i.e. Gout), but I am still battling with all of the above. All the best to you!
Thank you for the encouragement, Maria! ❤️
So I have Raynauds but I'm a little confused about treating with DMSO. Is the treatment topical or oral? If oral what is the dose?
“For example, the leading DMSO researcher found that 50% of patients with Raynaud’s syndrome had their symptoms eliminated with DMSO”….
and that thrombophlebitis responds excellently to DMSO and two researchers, using plethysmographic methods, demonstrated objective improvement in peripheral artery insufficiency in a large number of patients receiving topical DMSO . Likewise, DMSO has been shown to improve diabetic circulatory impairments such as peripheral neuropathy, or diabetic ulcers (where one study of hundreds of patients reported over a 94% treatment success rate) and prevent future amputations.
Can you provide a suggested protocol on how to use this if someone has a stroke? You said you have told other people what to do but I did not see any concise info besides applying it to the head. Most of us won’t be able to get a hospital to apply by IV will we?
What is the current view of DMSO for Parkinson’s or MSA?
We always treated it with IV DMSO but one person here has had a lot of success with oral DMSO for it.
What is the dose they used orally?
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-remarkable-history-and-safety/comment/72436114
Thank you for your articles on DMSO, they are very interesting. I would like to know what you might recommend for what seems to be an issue I’m having with parasympathetic system. A brief history, I’ve always had some white coat syndrome high BP but then I went on a 3 year low carb diet with a lot of fasting that caused my BP to skyrocket and me not to tolerate any stress. A year ago I got sick with a two week fever and a cough that lasted a few months. Since then I have had many food sensitivities, I get high BP episodes, irregular heartbeats, times of low BP, days of fatigue, bouts with insomnia, periodic night sweats, and heat sensations over my body. My GP did all kinds of tests, so has my cardiologist but can’t find an infection or anything wrong. My cardiologist and health coach think something off with parasympathetic system. I’m meditating, doing breathing and relaxation exercises and have dialed in diet in a bioenergetic model. I get weeks of feeling great but then have days or weeks that feel awful. I was considering trying DMSO. Do you suggest a certain protocol?
Take it orally and see if anything changes (may want to start with a few drops instead of a teaspoon). Other option is to see if taking zeta aid improves it at all. A good chinese medicine doctor might be able to help with this too.
Thank you. I’ll let you know if it helps
Low carb diets can certainly cause these things. I was on it longer than that with damage to my thyroid and a metabolism that hit the basement where trying to eat just a few more carbs put weight on. My BP went up as well. I’m trying a more pro metabolic protocol as well.
Thanks for sharing. It does seem low carb causes a lot of issues for some of us. Have you had any improvements since switching? How long ago did you switch ? I switched about a year ago and have a number of improvements but still can’t handle stress that well whether physical or mental but that too has improved some. After a year I would say I feel at 80% but still hoping for more improvement but it’s slow. Have you tried DMSO? I’m curious to try and see if it helps with any symptoms.
Hi Doc, I am surprised and disappointed in what seems to be your dismissal of my question, even though it was not one of your typically adoring viewer comments. I asked about a research paper that had published a report that brought into question the safety of DMSO. If you have actually dismissed it, and if it not just some sort of a misunderstanding of your process here, your apparent negative action is no better than those taken by those three-letter regulatory agents that have shunned your work on DMSO. I believe my question about the article I mentioned (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4169574/) is worthy of a respectful response, because the mitochondrial density of astrocytes (in brain and spinal cord) is similar to that in neurons.
This 2014 article is not a fluke. On the contrary, it has attracted a lot of attention in the research community. For example, this one article has 73 cited-by's and 97 "similar articles."
I got hundreds of correspondences and my time is incredibly stretched.
What it's describing has not been observed clinically (e.g., you can preserve neurons in it, developmentally disabled children with neurological issues significantly improve from DMSO, patients with mitochondrial disorders significantly improve).
So, that either means it's an issue with the experimental design that is not applicable in biological systems or the changes high concentrations of DMSO creates are small enough they can only be detected with very sensitive diagnostic technology (at which point most things become toxic).
So as a quick follow up on this:
Typically:
Low concentration of a compound damages mitochondria.
Higher concentration inhibits cell growth.
Higher concentration kills cells.
Approximately 90% of substances in existence kill most cells at 1%
Most substances stop cell growth at 0.001% concentration and often much lower (ie. 0.00001%)
Most substances impair mitochondrial function at much lower concentrations, but the exact data for those rangers is unclear.
A classic way compounds are tested for toxicity is to see what % is needed to create each of those effects on cells. You never see the same effects in the body (unless it is toxic at very low concenrations) because they rapidly dillute in the body. DMSO diffuses especially fast, so in effect to have a 1% concentration of it (the threshold for possibile mitochondrial effects) you'd need to drink nearly a liter per day, whereas at most people have a few teaspoons. Conversely, if it's only obtained by applying to the skin, it's effectively impossible to ever reach that concentration unless you spent a prolonged period sitting in a vat of pure DMSO.
Five days to go.
Midwestern Doctor for president.
We should get Trump to appoint her to head up the FDA *and* the CDC.
Oh wait... better would be for Trump to dissolve both organizations!
Dr. I belong to an online group healing and restoring our metabolism harmed through long time low carb, keto, carnivore, fasting, IF, under eating, eating disorders, etc. The truth is not being told by the corresponding gurus. I was able to give this series to the group and we are talking about it. Thank God for MWD and Substack!
Thank you. My honest perspective on the diet is that everyone responds to different diets, and generally the quality of the food (e.g., how many nutrients, are there toxic additives in it) matter more than the specific balance of macronutrients.
I can agree with that. I try to eat the best I can, but found I had to eat more of it! I mostly under ate most of my life. I now believe most of these diets respond simply by removing toxic food and weight is lost by eating less food period, as they encourage under eating and eventually just become very low calorie diets as appetite is suppressed . There is no magic in high fat. Actually fat has very few nutrients.
Purchased DMSO and brands mentioned. Helpful immediately for muscle pain, bruising and scare tissue. I have Raynaud’s from Moderna shot, not sure how to use DMSO for Raynaud’s
Topically in affected areas and possibly further up the arm or orally.
Will try suggestions; particularly on the injection arm (Moderna). Thank you
From Amazon I ordered the DMSO store bottle came yesterday in glass, I had previously ordered NO ODOR DMSO - Dimethyl sulfoxide liquid (3.4 Oz - 100ml), Pharmaceutical grade, High purity, Heiltropfen It had no odor so makes me wonder if that is actually the good stuff
I beleive that the bottles from DMSO store are good. We have used them for years. They do crystalize, and I can taste it after when used topically. I personally have a very acute sense of smell and I can smell the DMSO bottle when its on the counter, but my husband does not. The "odor' perception might vary form person to person.
Thank you for bringing this information to us. I have added DMSO to my home formulary and both my wife and I have begun using it for different maladies.
My I make one point, perhaps a correction, to something mentioned in this article? I believe it is worth noting... After almost 40 years of assessing patients with neurologic trauma and neurological medical disorders, and teaching anatomy/physiology/and prehospital treatment, I think we must assert that if a patient displays facial droop or a fixed gaze to one side then the affected vasculature will be on that SAME side (not the opposite side) due to the 12 cranial nerves serving those areas. Then any deficit in the extremities (arms and legs) will be caused by an interruption in the vasculature on the opposite side.
MWD, you are my first subscription to Substack. Keep up the amazing work!
That was in reference to general muscle weakness (ie. of arm).
Hello Doc. First I’d like to thank you for all of the work you have put into this article. I have been using DMSO on my dad since his recent hip replacement. I am getting mixed results. I am experimenting with it. Some feedback on your article. First, I think you need to provide some very concrete steps on how to do (i.e. 70%) concentration level if you want to mix it. I have been using 50% because I know it is 2 parts. Secondly, I am told by my mentor, who is kinesiologist that the spleen is the main organ that controls pain. Which for other readers, is on the left side of the body, under the nipple. If this is not working or blocked, you will get mixed results. It may be helpful to put DMSO on this point. Thirdly, if people are taking other pain medications, DMSO needs to be used /applied hours after the pain medication is used. It may be helpful for people who have chronic conditions to have DMSO topical applications put applied to spine area/ whole spine.
You provide so much info, which is great, and in so much time, but it can be overwhelming. I’d suggest to slow it down. There is a lot to absorb here. I have this problem as well. Lastly, I want to direct readers to divine love protocol by Robert Fritchie. Here is one of his videos. https://youtu.be/d2Xo1eQImwo. Blessings, Michele
can you clarify on the oral dosage.. to start do you want 3.5 grams of 20/80 percent dmso/distilled water mix ( and then juice for taste ), or do you want 3.5 grams of 99 percent dmso then dilute that with juice for taste?
and can that natures gift brand (the pictured bottle with red label and 70/30 mixture) be safely used orally (if i mixed it correctly based off whatever the math is in answer to my first question)?
thanks
Hi MWD. I believe I have polymyalgia rheumatica. Intense pain in neck, shoulders, hips, and hands and somewhat in feet. Pain lessens throughout day. Unbearable at night and getting out of bed in AM. No blood indicators of autoimmune, but have never been so miserable in my life. I started taking a teaspoon of 99.9% Pharma grade DMSO at night in grapefruit juice. Do you recommend this. I have such large areas of pain, that I thought this would be easier than rubbing it over extensive areas. I read Healing with DMSO by Amanda Vollmer. Thoughts?
Posting this here too because I am new to Substack posting and not sure how to do this??
You can do orally at that dose. You may also need to topically apply it to areas of pain.
Wow. I had never heard of this before. It sounds like a miracle drug. Having worked in the ICU and ER for years as a young nurse, I look back on all the lives this would have saved or improved had we used it. I’m not surprised the pharmaceutical companies won’t use it —but the fact that the FDA won’t approve its use and make it available is unconscionable. Are they protecting the public or the pharmaceutical companies? (That’s a rhetorical question, of course).
My heart breaks thinking about this and the people who might have been saved, including my 17 y.o. niece who suffered a traumatic brain injury in a car accident with resulting increased ICP. They couldn’t control the swelling, even with mannitol—her brain herniated.
Yeah :(
I abbreviated a lot of the technical details so this wouldn't be too long, but I tried to leave enough in that the importance of it would jump out to healthcare workers.
Thank you. Your research is always very interesting and helpful. I agree with Dr Kory’s statement regarding how beneficial this might’ve been. I’ve followed the FLCCC protocols from their inception. Doctors behaving like doctors — it gives me hope.
Thank you for your exceedingly helpful and informative work! I wonder if you would consider doing an article on the use of low dose naltrexone? I have been experiencing chronic fatigue, pain, anxiety, depression and sleep disturbance for more than 10 years. I have recently discovered that I have not been absorbing nutrients due to multiple GI issues. It has been suggested that I consider the use of LDN to address many of my symptoms. Would be very interested in hearing your stance on LDN. Thank you!
It's in here: https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/how-do-we-determine-the-correct-dose
Thank you very much!!
I really appreciate the in depth information. However, I am not a medical person and am wondering for the novice if you can break down the oral dosage into drops and dilution needed for various conditions. Example: 100% DMSO 1 drop per 1/2 cup water or juice 4 times a day for stroke or blood clots or arthritis and how to build up the dose if needed. Or is there a book that covers this. The book you recommended looks like it is for physicians for IV or IM use
And a bit more info on what one can dilute the 100% DMSO with and how often you can rub it on your skin for back or muscle issues or peripheral neuropathy or carpal tunnel.
I appreciated the info from Mark Farris and the keratosis lesions as I have some of them too.
1/2 teaspoon of 100% or 70% DMSO in a glass of water that is mixed. Can gradually raise to 1 teaspoon or 1.5 teaspoons. With topical, start with applying 30% and then raise to 70% if you can tolerate.
Thank u so much!!
Thank you so much for your very informative articles. I have purchased one of the DMSO products you mentioned in this article. I plan on using this on my arthritic knees, but in the meantime, I recently had some dental work and the result is I have extreme gum sensitivity. My functional medicine dentist did take an ex ray and saw the nerve is irritated. I have been using DMSO on my jawline. Would you recommend putting on the gum directly? Should it be mixed with something else before applying? I did buy the liquid version DMS 70/30. Thanks so much for your opinion.
Will cover than in a future article, but if just use it as a dilute mouthwash, that will help too.
My daughter has cerebral palsy and subsequent developmentmental delays. Her MRI shows significant brain damage. Neither the pediatrician nor neurologist had any knowledge of this. Will there be any research with CP in mind? Is there any hope my daughter could benefit from DMSO?
I saw that MS will be covered soon. I'm so excited about this. My best friend was diagnosed years ago and has suffered tremendously.
Thank you for the months of work you have done to put this together.
I found a variety of conditions similar to CP that responded either to DMSO or DMSO+amino acids, but nothing on CP specifically.
Thank you for this article. I subscribed because of it. Do you think DMSO could help with optic nerve healing? I take 1/2 teaspoon in coffee in the am.
yes but I will go into that in a later article
Given people ingest quit a bit of microplastic, a side effect could be DMSO helping the body remove certain types.
I spent a while trying to figure out how DMSO chelated things and eventually gave up.
I am new to DMSO. Do you know anyone that has used it for autism? Thank you!
I have only found one reference so far to it helping. We never personally tried it.
That would be great to know!
I read all the comments and appreciate the insights and details. With regards to an allergic response, I have a question about the chemical similarity to Sam-e and MSM. I can't take either of those without getting a rash or becoming nauseated. Years ago when I was put on a sulfa antibiotic, I vomited relentlessly that the doctor had to prescribe prednisone to stop the reaction. I really want to try DMSO, however I don't know enough about chemistry to know if I will react. I also read about Molybdenum and am taking 25mcg in a Core Minerals supplement that Dr. Collin of the Townsend Letter prescribed (before he retired, sadly). Not sure if that is high enough. Regardless, I need to try DMSO for a neck injury that is getting worse as I age. Does anyone have an opinion if DMSO is different enough from MSM biochemically? And when I do a trial, what would be a reasonable dosage and method? Thank you!
I just answered this in the most recent article.
If DMSO stabilizes proteins, thereby helping in various genetic disorders, would it be reasonable to think it could apply to the treatment of polycystic kidney disease?
My best guess is that it would help the disorder by generally strengthening the kidneys (which it has been shown to do in other conditions) but I am not aware of any data on this.
This is a wonderful deep dive into an incredible substance . As a veterinarian it was pretty popular back in the 80,s but I do not see it so much anymore. Looks like it needs a rebirth! Personally I will attest it carried some topical steroid into a very swollen knee (blew out running when I was in my residency) and between the DMSO and the steroid it worked amazing Note: it was a topical ear product we had available at the time. I thought maybe I was crazy but now I know better Thank you for your work and this will be reread ....
Might topical DMSO be helpful for a spinal cord injury from 2015, back pain and severe nerve pain from many spinal surgeries (degenerative condition)? These are 3different people.
Yes.
Tested skin full strength, no prob. Did 7 grams. Why. Life is complex but I think my HVAC is triggering a complete blockage of nasal passages with constant drip. No I don’t have seasonal allergies but I do have the genetics the that reabsorb mold. The HVAC tech says the HVAC is fine. Wish I had a portable pathogen tester as everyone is a bit unique. So far no bad reactions. I can also tolerate 75 grams of IV C twice per week. Yes, the hospital did a number on me. 😂
I too have the HLA gene “defect” with mold/biotoxin susceptibility that triggered CIRS. I’m trying DMSO as I can’t leave my rental and most buildings will have water damage/mold issues. I too had a response of raised body tem
Have a 100.6 F fever. Is it common for DMSO to trigger a fever if needed?
101.4 F now. At 6am was 100 F.
102.3 F now. Feels like a good fever with some discomfort.
Might be a detox reaction.
I also subscribed because of the DMSO article and am anxiously awaiting the other parts. I know so many people who could have been helped by DMSO and maybe it is not too late for some. Thank you so much.
Why was DMSO banned? Does MSM have any similar properties?
Because it works and is of no use to Big Pharma, it’s a natural compound that can’t be patented, therefore not a money maker.
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DMSO Could Save Millions From Brain and Spinal Injury
The decades of evidence showing DMSO revolutionizes the care of many "untreatable" circulatory and neurologic conditions.
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Story at a Glance:
•DMSO is a remarkably safe chemical that protects cells from otherwise fatal stressors (e.g., freezing, burning, shockwaves, ischemia). Since the heart, brain, and spinal cord are particularly vulnerable to injury, DMSO can produce miraculous results for those conditions.
•The usage of DMSO completely transforms the management of strokes (including brain bleeds), heart attacks, and spinal cord injuries. As I will show here, had the FDA not sabotaged DMSO’s adoption, in addition to countless lives being saved, millions could have been protected from a lifetime of disability or paralysis.
•DMSO has many other remarkable properties. For example, it stabilizes proteins, and thus treats many challenging protein disorders (e.g., amyloidosis and numerous genetic disorders).
•Many conditions DMSO treats are typically considered to be incurable. In this article, I will focus on DMSO’s remarkable utility for the conditions that respond best to intravenous DMSO (e.g., a variety of circulatory disorders like varicose veins or Raynaud’s) and complex neurological disorders (e.g., Down’s Syndrome, Developmental Delay, ALS, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s), along with how to administer IV DMSO and DMSO stroke protocols.
If I were stranded on a desert island or knew the world was ending and I could only bring a few therapies with me, one of them, without a doubt, would be DMSO. This is because:
•It treats a wide range of severe illnesses which are often otherwise incurable and frequently fatal or lead to a lifetime of permanent disability.
"•It effectively treats acute injuries and rehabilitates chronic musculoskeletal disorders (e.g., arthritis). Because of this, it’s one of the best “pain medicines” out there and has allowed many to get their lives back.
•It has a variety of unique properties that open up a completely different dimension to how medicine can be practiced.
•It is one of the safest medically active substances in existence."
The lists of these remedies and their premeditated, convoluted delegitimization is getting longer by the day.
What's next? Sunlight? Oh, Wait!
no need to ban sunlight if everyone has been convinced to stay inside staring at blue-lit screens (;
Dear MWD, you need to mention how DMSO should be stored, once the bottle is opened. Someone told me it should not be stored in the fridge? True?
According to the " book "DMSO Dimethylsulfoxide for Humans: Recipes & Treatment" DMSO is not degraded by repeated freezing and thawing.
it will turn solid if you do that, it's freezing point is about 17 degrees C, fridge is maybe 3
What about DMSO and autism?
Chlorine Dioxide
Kerri Rivera - Mom, Holistic & Autism Expert-1st 25 minutes is about CD… https://odysee.com/@VaultOfSecrecy:5/Kerri-Rivera-Chlorine-Dioxide-Reverses-Autism:b. - https://kerririvera.com
If you have a multi-system chronic disease that’s inflammatory at the root, is it best to start taking DMSO orally rather than other methods of application? Or, if I have Colitis and ulcers, and other gut related issues, is it better to just rub DMSO at 70% directly on my belly?
Both approaches are used. I would start with topical.
If DMSO can readily cross the blood brain barrier, and also as a sulfur bearing chemical, similar to DMSA and DMPS, can chelate heavy metals, are you not concerned that DMSO will pick up heavy metals from the tissue and carry and deposit the heavy metals in the brain?
To my knowledge that issue has never been observed with DMSO. Also, the sulfur chelating agents use -SH groups, which is very different from what's present in DMSO.
Awesome research! MW Dr
Thank you for this article 🙏
I have a low platelet count, though it has not caused any harm and I've had a couple of operations without any problems. If I cut myself it probably takes longer to stop bleeding. I hope DMSO is not a no-no for me because of the low platelets!
I do not know enough on this topic to feel confident answering it either way. My *guess* however is that it wouldn't cause a problem.
Is there any danger to kidney function when using DMSO topically or orally? How much should it be diluted for topical use?
Will go into all of those later in the series.
Can’t wait
Wonderful. Are there any studies for eczema, psoriasis, or erythema multiforme?
skin conditions will be in a later part
Hi Doc,
Not nitpicking but unsure how concerned with typos you are - I picked up two:
arthritic (instead of arithmetic) - melody clark section
omewhat (instead of somewhat) - DMSO methodology section
Cheers and a great article!
I am pretty happy I only made 2 typos!
That's pretty phenomenal for an article as long and complex as this. The longer the article, the less likely that perfection can be achieved.
Considering the amount written, two is pretty good! hahaha
Although who knows, some may have slipped by me...
But yes, I fixed them.
Thank you, Doctor, for a great article. I have learned a great deal from you work. Looking forward to the next segment!
Can you please expand on the topic of MSM? Is it considered an oral substitute for DSMO in some applications?
It does some of what DMSO does but it is not in anyway a substitute for it.
“While human research has also been conducted, I could not locate any of it online”. Not an accident or oversight I’m thinking.🤔
In this case I just think it's because it's old.
I am keen to try DMSO. However, according to Dr Keith Scott-Mumby ,and some available research, although DMSO has many positive benefits it may damage the mitochondria - please can the Mid-Western Doctor, or any other knowledgeable person, please comment on this point.
You mentioned in this article that you can use hydrogen peroxide with DMSO through the skin. I have used hydrogen peroxide diluted in 8 ounces of distilled water and would like to know if I can combine that with the DMSO?
AMD, a question on DMSO: a friend suffered a severe stroke several months ago and has been told he may never use one of his arms again. Is it possible for DMSO to make a meaningful impact this long after the event? Midwestern Doctor, appreciate all your research and efforts. The breadth of topics and the detail in which you cover them are hugely impressive!
Medicine Girl writes very plainly about the dangers of DMSO. It’s a solvent, and the paper industry found a way to wrap profits from its waste, much like fluoride in water. What’s the truth about DMSO? I’ve been using it from time to time but no longer until I know more.
AMD, what’s your thought on this?
She keeps posting that to get traffic. It's highly inaccurate, but each time we try to explain (along with dozens of readers who have tried as well), she says we are brainwashed by the medical field and don't understand what we are talking about since anything else cost her views and refuses to correct anything (along with telling everyone who says DMSO helped them a lot and had no side effect that their experience, for one reason or another, doesn't count). For example, the moment they realized DMSO had medical applications (in the 1960s), they stopped producing it from wood pulp and switched to a cleaner process because pharmaceutical standards require pure products.
Her brand essentially is saying commonly used natural therapies are actually toxic and you need to just do detoxs and elimination diets so she's written a lot of rediculous hit pieces. When we looked at her arguments, we realized that she was juxtaposing common issues with other pharmaceuticals onto DMSO (which is a common thing people do, as due to it being hard to fully understand a subject, they always juxtapose their pre-existing knowledge base onto it).
Regarding the deaths, the points she's omitting is that in all but one of them, another product was involved, as on FAERS if someone has a lethal reaction to a drug, they list all the other things they were taking as well, and in those cases, it was more likely culprit of death, and in many cases, they were being given intravenously (where a higher risk of death, particularly the onyx cases where the DMSO polymer mixture was being used to patch an otherwise fatal internal bleed and hence was a high risk situation). When I wrote the safety article, amongst other things I read through all the FAERS reports and explained them, no one else has done that. Conversely, most medications have thousands of deaths in FAERS, many of which can be directly attributed to the drug. The fact that over roughly 40 years 21 deaths are in there almost none of which can be attributed to DMSO is an insane safety profile. The primary drug DMSO replaces (NSAIDS like ibuprofen) are well recognized to kill hundreds of people each day, and their toxicity is rarely discussed.
At the very start of the DMSO series, I expected there would be a lot of pharmaceutical hit pieces written on DMSO. For that reason, a year ago, I wrote an extensive article on the history of DMSO and the safety of it. If you compare the articles to her piece, it should be clear it was hastily done and grossly inaccurate.
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-fdas-war-against-dmso-and-america
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-remarkable-history-and-safety
Additionally, she actually incidentally proved DMSO was very safe. I just left this comment on the article:
I made a decision to avoid promoting this article in anyway to avoid contaminating or biasing the sample with proDMSO voices because I felt it would be an excellent natural experiment (due to you casting a wide net to solicit adverse reactions to DMSO and simultaneously antagonizing a lot of people who had benefitted from DMSO with your inflammatory and dismissive language).
I gave this a month and then today went through and sorted every comment you received which pertained to direct experiences with DMSO. Of the 99 responses received which appeared to discuss direct experiences with DMSO:
•64 were positive reports, 81% of which an AI system characterized as “profound” improvements.
•17 suggested a positive direct experience, but did not explicitly state so in the comment.
•2 were impossible to determine if a benefit, harm or no effect occurred.
•6 stated no benefit occurred. However, most of these were for conditions where DMSO is known not to work (and hence not advised).
•2 implied no benefit occurred, but it was unclear.
•12 individuals reported tolerable and temporary reactions which are known side effects of DMSO, 7 of whom were also included in one of the previous tallies (e.g., someone who benefitted from it noticed there was a tolerable rash).
•3 individuals reported more severe reactions. Two of these were tolerable and temporary, while the third resulted from DMSO being combined with oregano oil.
For context, that equates to a 91% success rate (and much higher if you remove the instances where DMSO is not recommended for the specific ailment). Likewise, 14% reported adverse responses, most of which were minor and had no consequence besides the individual not wanting to continue the therapy.
Put differently from a sample of user experiences which was designed to be highly biased towards DMSO, you demonstrated that it's safety and efficacy is much higher than any other therapy on the market. However, when individuals reported positive responses, your consistent choice was to gaslight them.
Finally, the worse reaction someone had was when it was combined with oregano oil. I personally use and prescribe oregano oil and think it's lovely when used appropriately, but also quite strong and irritating. I hence found it noteworthy that, to the best of my knowledge, the only therapy you have ever endorsed on here, which you described as a panacea and heavily downplayed any adverse reactions from (despite it being strong enough that it will cause issues if used incorrectly). For context, the LD50 for oral oregano oil is 748–1,556 mg/kg in rats, whereas DMSO's LD50 is 14,500. I have no issue with oregano oil, but it is much more toxic than many of the other therapies I've seen you attack (ie. it's 10-20 times more toxic than DMSO).
Outstanding analysis. I’ve read all your DMSO articles, which is why hers took me by surprise. It’s been the only anti-DMSO voice I’ve heard. I should have looked more closely at her writing, and perhaps her background. I wonder if I’d find pharma ties, but it’s difficult to dig deeply when the writer is essentially anonymous. I’ll look harder at her, though. Thank you as always for your kind and thorough response. I notice how truth tellers don’t mind questions. They’re ready with facts and logic. 😉. I really appreciate learning from you. We MUST take control of our own health, and that requires knowledge. Truth on, AMD.
My dad had a TIA last night. He is in the hospital currently for observation and until we get results of his mri
I gave him oral dmso for 4 hours and also put on topical during that time.
Where in Az can I take him for iv therapy? I’m not having any luck finding a doc. Also, what is the intramuscular injection protocol??
Do you know whether DMSO is safe to take while breastfeeding? In regards to does it affect milk supply?
I’m breast feeding 1.5 year old twins and I use dmso for migraines and had no problems.
I’m glad to hear it! How long have you been using it, if I might ask?
I’ll add that it has been topical 100% with aloe Vera gel or 70% roll on
Haven’t done oral
Re DMSO... the pieces you've written are fascinating and a great example of how our so-called healthcare system is failing the public it's meant to serve. Question: a friend suffered a severe stroke several months ago and has been told he may never use one of his arms again. Is it possible for DMSO to make a meaningful impact this long after the event? Midwestern Doctor, appreciate all your research and efforts. The breadth of topics and the detail are hugely impressive!
Are you aware of any ways in which DMSO, or other umbrella therapies, might be useful in the treatment of Fluoroquinolone side effects or Fluoroquinolone-Associated Disability?
I have spoken to people who had luck with nebulizing glutathione for the heart and lung issues and people who've had success with stem cells, but my data is limited on this one.
Here in the UK I had a team try to finish me off; a very long story to be published one day. By pure chance, (I am an inventor), so I had been trying out how to introduce a large quantity of Vitamin C into a DMSO distilled water solution. This what I did, and it works.
To make a DMSO solution, take 200g of water, add the 200g of vitamin C and the 10g of vitamin B1 and very gently heat it in a clean high quality stainless steel saucepan, (I used a wooden spoon to continuously stir). Indeed the vitamins were completely dissolved without any high temperature. Leave it to cool, it remains in solution. Then add the 200g of DMSO, and pour it into your glass bottle. Interestingly, the bottle will feel warm afterwards, so the addition of the DMSO is exothermic, the addition creates a small amount of heat. I left it overnight and added two teaspoonsful to a glass of water before breakfast, drank that and an additional glass of water.
You can work out for yourselves how much vitamin C is delivered from the quantities. My scales tell me you will receive 7g of the solution per teaspoonful, divided by 3 gives you 2.3 grams of vitamin C. I had added the vitamin B1 as the work of Dr Paul Makis, who discovered his cure for sepsis using intravenous injections only worked if vitamin B1 is added to the vitamin C. My instincts that brought me to try this a few weeks ago, told me that as DMSO has properties that can be used to deliver directly into the blood stream, it was worth a try to see if it would deliver high levels of vitamin C without too much disturbance to one's gut, and it works.
Mind you, my first trying two teaspoonful produces a quite dramatic but short term effect, :) I can tell you, it is in circulation within a 1/4 hour, and one's temperature rises to create a sweat that is at first a WoW! dizzy effect, thus that I am suggesting sticking to the one at a time for a first try. Try it three times a day certainly until you get used to it.
I have been daily taking two teaspoonful of it ever since; with NO problems whatever.
Dear Midwestern Doctor,
I truly appreciate everything you do. Thank you! I have suffered from GERD for well over a decade. I do not take PPIs, but I do use TUMS and baking soda. I have a hiatal hernia and esophageal erosion causing stricture and narrowing. Are there facilities that provide intraperitoneal DMSO treatments? Can taking DMSO orally help soothe and heal the erosion? Can a hiatal hernia be treated without surgery? Lately, I have been experiencing discomfort from my hernia at different times of the day, and I am a bit concerned. However, my gastroenterologist only push PPIs. I don’t know where to turn... DMSO sounds promising.
Thank you kindly!
I just subscribed to you, via Dr. Mercola’s blog. I am praying that DMSO might be effective to treat coccidioidomycosis, AKA Valley Fever. My husband was diagnosed last December after getting hospitalized with pneumonia, he ended up in the ICU twice. He was treated with antibiotics and then amphotericin via IV, which caused kidney failure, luckily they stopped the at treatment and he is now taking fluconazole, 400 mg daily. We are hoping for a way to get him off of fluconazole, as it has some unpleasant side effects. He still has some pain in the right lung, and at the last check, there is still an indication of a much reduced area of Valley Fever. This is causing him to experience fatigue and has curtailed his activity.
I would like to try using DMSO to see if that could help. I’m not sure what dose to try, or whether to try it topically or have him take it with juice or water. Do you have any advice for us? He is 72 and is otherwise healthy.
I need some help, my 19 year old son (no covid vax) just had a venous sinus thrombosis thank God no stroke or bleeding they gave him blood thinners and said the body will take care of the clot on its own, he's an A+ student and really wants to get back to his studies but cant fully, because of the headaches, I'd like for him to try DMSO but concerned it might make the clot disolve to quickly and a piece can get stuck in his lung or leg God forbid. Is it safe and if yes how should we administer Thanks Much
Is it okay to measure the DMSO in metal teaspoons?
AMD, I'm wondering, given the seemingly miraculous benefits of taking DMSO for any of a myriad existing conditions, is there a daily dosage the might be internally consumed prophylactically as a catch-all prevention, as it were, against diseases in general?
merhaba, doktor beyin yazıları arasında Dmso kullanımı ve dozlarının yazılı olduğu bir makale var mı acaba bulamıyorum.
Can DMSO taken orally help reduce already-present carotid arterial plaque? If so, at what dose? For those of us with familial hyperlipidemia (FH), high LDL and high lipoprotein A, is DMSO an effective treatment to counter development of arteriosclerosis? I am unable to find a doctor locally who knows what DMSO is, recognizes its therapeutic effect much less administer it intravenously.
I have the Waldo brand. It's 99.9% pharmacy grade. Interestingly, it doesn't have the garlic smell. I assume it's ok to use orally? I have a lot of vein issues and figured it's more systemic. Has anyone else had success with topical DMSO for veins? If so, how long before you noticed improvement? Thank in advance.
Not sure you’ll see this doc but any thing you have found on transverse myelitis? I know a young dad almost misdiagnosed, but that is the current dx and you know what the treatment for that is! just curious thanks.
New subscriber here...I am a senior citizen and have some trouble with the science etc...one of my sons has been diagnosed with ALS...could you expand a bit on possible protocols for him...? It appears that ALS is similar to MS and Parkinson...are the protocols the same? Please help...CjH
Thank YOU for this article. I have read before that DMSO should not be used if you have implants...I have a pace maker and my daughter has breast implants....What is your thoughts on this...
Can DMSO help with Hyperparathyroid?
How to treat Raynaud's? I have read through the DMSO articles and have not been able to spot a protocol for cold hands and feet. Does anyone have a suggestion?
Would this help sarcoidosis of the lungs and pancreas?
Sorry if this question sounds too basic - but if I have a nebulizer that holds 20 ml - and I have a DMSO 100% solution - how much DMSO do I put in it to achieve a 1% solution?
20ml x 0.01 = 0.2ml to yield 1%
20ml x 0.02 = 0.4ml to yield 2%
I use an eye dropper that has 1ml graduation/marking. I test the dropper to determine how many drops from 1 ml.
My dropper gives 40 drops per ml. Which means 40 drops x 0.2 = 8 drops. Also 40 drops x 0.4 = 16 drops.
Test your dropper to be sure, because I've seen droppers vary widely.
Greetings MWD! So, I wish I had asked you this question when you posted this article close to almost a yr ago already! Your articles are so incredibly amazing and excellent, Much needed!!! A I was looking through the past yr to find this article so I could ask a related question, I see all the articles I haven't yet read and all the ones I'd like to and hope to read! Meanwhile, not sure if you will even be responding to questions to this article now.
My question, a woman in my community that I've gotten to know a bit, she's totally not with a wholistic perspective, nevertheless, she has cervical cord myelomacia, could dmso offer healing & restoration for that kind of condition? I'm guessing at the very least, maybe alleviation from the pain?
Looking forward to your thoughts! Infinite appreciation!!!
How would one go about finding a doctor to treat a patient with DMSO having a persistent BRAIN BLEED that nearly killed him?
Conventional docs plug each new leak, but that's just putting off the deadly day. They have NO SOLUTION to getting the underlying problem to heal.
Related, would his statin use be contributing to impairing tissue healing of the brain?
How would you suggest it being taken for ALS treatment?
Sorry if this is a repeated question but what brand and or strength is available and reputable here in Scotland or wider uk?
TIA .. fabulous information 👏
Thank you!
I could not find anything about a form of dementia called Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) at this site. Some of its symptoms overlap with those of Alzheimer's. In my online search on behalf of a friend, I discovered that very little research has been done using DMSO. One in vitro study concluded that it would probably be unsafe, because it worsened the aggregation of nerve cells. However, and much more encouraging, an animal model with mice, did not reveal any injury to cells. In both studies nothing was committed in writing about DMSO's effectiveness, only that there was not enough found to allow the results to provide clinical guidance. Nevertheless, the authors of the animal study said that DMSO could be used "under supervision." Can anyone reading this provide details about how DMSO might be used by the average reader for treating LBD?
Hi All,
What article covers the dosing of other issues such as the dosing for tinnitus?
TY...
What is best source for a liquid DMSO to take daily in water?
Thank you so much for all your work on DMSO! It's amazing and so inspiring to read about all these possibilities for healing. I posted this question last week but can't find it to see if there was a response yet so I'm posting it again.
My husband has Parkinson's and first I am wondering whether there is any research with DMSO and Parkinson's and if so how one would use it for that. Then I wanted to know if it is safe to use DMSO along with his medications for his torn meniscus/arthritic knee that causes him pain. He also has neuropathy that I see people have had results with as well. We haven't tried it yet on him because we aren't sure about safety and possible reactions to his medications (Crexont -carbadopa/levadopa, and Ongentys)
I would also like to use DMSO on my osteoarthritis knee but I saw that it should not be used with other blood thinners. I am currently taking olive leaf extract that instructs for it not to be used with blood thinners also. So is it safe to use DMSO with olive leaf extract?
Thank you again so much for your generosity in sharing all this crucial hidden information.
I had a hard fall, bashing my knees with a soft tissue injury to my right knee and shin area, in December 2024. It healed reasonably well except for compartments of swelling on either side of the right upper shin which persisted until today.
This afternoon I applied 99.95% DMSO liquid to my right knee and shin. Within 30 minutes that ugly swelling began to subside! Now, two hours later, it looks almost normal! I plan to continue the DMSO application for a few more days or until the swelling is permanently resolved.
Thank you, AMD, for all of your research and your helpful outreach! Your efforts mean so much to health seekers. I’ve been a paid subscriber of yours for some time and am happy to support your work.
Hello Doc, can you tell us again the DMSO Brand that you recommend? I was purchasing one on Amazon for the last few years, that I really liked it was a blen of Aloe, Lavender and 70% DMSO (99% pure dmso) according to their label. The brand was called Arbo Trex, then one day I went to re-order a poof they were gone. I searched everywhere for them. There are many other Brands on Amazon. The latest one I ordered is by a Doctor but smells like toothpaste to me? I am considering making my own, so I know for sure what is in it.
I am an anesthesiologist in the Midwest and am really curious about how dmso could be used on my end. So many potential options... Period pain medicine (NMDA antagonist), intraop treatment for just about every surgical/hospital-based diagnosis, antibiosis effect, and so many more. In addition, could it be a preventative for postop-cognitive dysfunction? This is a condition similar to dementia, but time-limited to up to a year for symptoms. However, the elderly, addicts, and developmental delay are susceptible, and I've seen more than my fair share of head injuries, broken bones from falls, etc due to this and needing urgent or emergent care.
Would my IRB even let this happen? 😆
IDK, but when my current research starts to level off, I may look into this. All of my research has been "out of the box", centered around creating new things, devices, screenings, etc, that make life EASIER and SAFER for the Anesthesiologist and patient, not to make companies money. Stay tuned!
Thank you again, doctor! I LOVE learning all about the uses of DMSO.
I am a caregiver and have given so much hope to my clients for pain relief and recovery from serious injury using these recipes! It's such a game-changing medicine and still so affordable in comparison to even just pain pills alone. All from a liquid drawn from trees - feels like working REAL magic on the care clients who no longer cry out in their sleep ;)
I've read about using DMSO rectally with other things. Any info on that?
It has been mentioned DMSO can slow or even reverse cirrhosis, but other than the anecdote about the alcoholics I can find nothing else. Do you have any knowledge of DMSO being used for PSC or PBC caused cirrhosis? A breakthrough for these conditions is greatly needed.
Are there any reports or studies using DMSO for treating comminuted fractures slow to heal?
Hello, is it safe to take DMSO if you have enlarged ventricles in the brain?
Kimberly
My daughter suffers from chronic pain due to endometriosis. She was diagnosed at age 13 and is now 22. She has had three laparoscopic surgeries to no avail. Her pain is all day every day and wakes her up at night. She moved to a downstairs bedroom at age 22 because the stairs increase her pain for 2-3 hours. Sometimes she can barely move. Pain doctors at Mayo in Rochester, UF in Gainesville, and UM in Miami have been useless. Accupuncture and pelvic floor therapy-useless. Are you aware of it being used to treat endometriosis pain? Do you have any dosing recommendations? I will fly her anywhere in country/world if there is someone with experience specific to endo pain. Please share any ideas you have because her life is nonexistent.
I read that DMSO could treat complex neurological disorders, as the article mentioned.
Can DMSO also treat Spinal Muscular Atrophy? Can DMSO help to relieve and recover the loss of motor neurons? My friend's 2-year-old son has SMA type 3. Thank you very much!
I take 70% DMSO/30% Pure organic aloe vera juice gel DMSO topically twice a day on my left foot and back for L5 sciatica injury recovery. I also use some on my left hand for minor tendon pain. I’ve been using it for three weeks and it works amazing for pain.
About how long does 70% topical DMSO it remain in the body and can 'influence' the affect of a pharmaceutical? You mentioned a rat or mouse study where it clears the body within 24 hours - clears in the urine.
I’m 62, take no medicine, and physically very active with low body fat and good blood work. I eat a meat-based keto diet.
I have upcoming a CT Scan of kidney with iodine contrast. Can DMSO cause undesirable affects – to wit, DMSO enhances absorption of iodine contrast and that would be bad? Or would DMSO help? Should I stop taking DMSO for some time before the CT scan?
I have the same question about an upcoming MRI with gadolinium contrast?
I’ve done some research and so far haven’t been able to uncover any information about this except that at DMSO is very valuable to counteract the effects of radiation.
Can DMSO also intensify taking valium and the dosage should be potentially reduced? For the MRI, I get claustrophobic and sedation with valium helps a lot.
AMD, can you provide a stroke protocol my spouse suffered in ischemic stroke last month and I need help! I have a bottle of 99.99% MSO as well as a 70/30 topical gel I cannot seem to find a protocol just anecdotes from those who have used it. In your series.
Dear Midwestern Doctor,
For all you do for mankind,
THANK YOU!!!
I’ve been a monthly supporter since last year and am finally writing you with a couple questions.
I’m 61 had a craniotomy June 2021. They clipped an artery. Wish they had used DMSO I would have saved myself years of pain and would still be able to hear from my left ear.
I have a titanium clip from that.
And I had both stapes replaced (otosclerosis) in 2010/11 with plastic clips.
I also have a AAA and two not perfect valves. (MRI July 2023)
QUESTION: Can I use DMSO on my head and/or internally with internal plastic prosthetics/clips? I have had many mri’s with them but don’t know how DMSO reacts with them.
Also, I have had hemorrhoids since giving birth, but they did not bother me until menopause. DMSO has helped, and I’d like to take a little internally. I’d also like to rub it on my heart and where they cut my skull.
I WANT YOU TO KNOW that the dmso I got from Amazon (Woldo health 99% pharma grade) works much better than Jacob Lab 70%. I diluted both accordingly. I found that interesting and thought you might too.
Lastly, if you know of anyone that could help me I would appreciate very much a recommendation.
I’ve seen 3 cardiologists, Dr Peter McCullough being one of them. But need someone who knows about hormones and dmso and genetics.
I’m very health conscious/aware just need someone who can really help me.
God bless you,
Barbara Vlaha
Hi, I have an amyloid angiopathy due to the pfizer shots. And I am currently undergoing a normobaric oxygen therapy to heal my endothelial barrier that has been badly damaged by the NL particles of the vaccine going into the bloodstream.
I usually have to take low dose nattokinase when I can see that the fibrin is getting a bit too stacked, especially in my brain, but Ive seen that removing it too soon create an inflammation of the brain blood barrier, and lot of neurological symptoms associated with degenerative diseases, and also so that it cuts down like a molecular cissor the fibrin in small pieces, and those pieces go relocate into other areas of my body, which can cause dangerous issues like strokes.
I am also in this dire situation where if I take nattokinase, for a specifc area, I have to encurr the risk of removing the fibrin/bandaid in another area that isn't yet healed.
I was thus researching something that would be a bit more gentle than the nattokinase, but also localized and wouldnt release big amounts of fibrin into the bloodstream at once,
thus I am wondering if DMSO could be a bit better in this case...
could it theoretically help with the holes in the capillaries caused by the vaccine, and also dissolve a bit better the fibrin if taken topically on the head for example ? as ive seen it was implied that it could be used to help with hemorragic strokes, i guess that it won't make holes in the endothelum worse but actually help them heal ? tell me what do you think of it. thanks
Looks like this article is heading towards a year old, so I'm not sure if anyone is interested, but I recently started oral DMSO. I weighed 3.5g of it, which happens to be right around 4 droppers full and 10 drops using a 2oz amber dropper bottle. I've been using 4 squirts twice a day. One thing that I noticed is a huge drop in my blood pressure which was getting pretty bad. I had already quit taking prescription meds for BP years ago and it wasn't getting any better despite changes in diet, exercise and weight.
4 squirts in about 12-16 oz of water, doesn't taste great but I've had worse tasting things in my mouth before. I found that, if I want to do a mouthwash, I can put 3.5g (which is coincidentally about 3.2ml) into a small flask with 30ml of water. I can swish that around and again, not a fan of the taste, but it's not really that bad.
For whatever reason, I don't seem to urinate any more frequently. And, lastly, I have already been using 100% DMSO on acne and skin problems. It doesn't really burn on my face, hands, or arms, but does sting a bit on my torso. That has worked better than any acne or other medications for cuts or burns that I've ever tried.
I hope you are reading this, Midwestern Doctor, because I could not find your recommendation for how to use DMSO to treat dementia (or oncoming dementia). Where would we apply it topically? I don't believe I could give an injection without strenuous pushback.
Oral or topically on the blood vessels feeding the brain (e.g., the carotids)
Today, as I begin learning about DMSO, I've also run across a video about applying essential oils in the navel. Now I wonder whether this might be a good means of delivering DMSO for systemic conditions such as high blood pressure. Or would just taking it orally be better?
Any thoughts?
Thank you sooo much for your time, effort and honesty in posting these DMSO articles. Do you have a link where all of them (hopefully in posting order) are available?
#1 9-15-24
#2 9-29-24
#3 6-11-25
Thank you, Ma'am!
You're welcome. Actually, I missed one on 10-12-24. So much good stuff to read!
Thank you once again! I have copied what I could find of the articles. According to your list, I have evidently missed one. I'll check and see.
Also, looking over your site, I find your assessment of choosing who to follow is exactly what I do as well. There are sooo many good and well informed posters to follow and sooo little time to absorb. One more time, thank you, Ma'am! -Donnie
My friend had a hemorrhagic stroke on March 11 this year. He only just told me. He is aged late 40s. He has regained some function. He was very fit prior to this, but did have obstructive sleep apnea. The hospital have him on a number of meds, including for blood pressure. Can he use DMSO while on these meds? Your feedback, MWD, would be hugely appreciated.
This is a wonderful series of articles and guidance for DMSO use! I sure wish you would put it all in a little book! I'd love to have the book instead of trying to print it all out! Thanks for these great DMSO articles!
My wife is allergic to wasps and we were at a beach in Türkiye and she sat down on a wasp and got stung. We call an ambulance and I ran back to the house to get my MMS and DMSO and applied it to the sting. She was just about go unconscious. By the time the ambulance arrived she was feeling almost back to normal. The I told the paramedics what I did and they didn't know what I was talking about but they said they wouldn't have been able to save her life as there is no antidote for wasp stings.
The first joint on both my index and pinky finger have "hard balls" [of bone??] and at times they hurt. What is that and will DMSO help? I am 63, and am my 80 yr old mother's 24/7 caregiver. I have some DMSO for her as a stroke victim, but her stroke was last May and she has been non verbal since. I hope it even helps her a little. Being paralyzed on her right side really sucks
We have a child who was diagnosed with a syrinx on her spine. She had the surgery 2 years ago. She has been having symptoms of it again. Oddly enough also, at the incision site on her spine, the scar looks as if it has pulled apart…not sure how to describe it…there’s a “well,” if you will, at the spot now. I have started using DMSO 70% from Jacoblab.com. We may have some connective tissue disorders in the family. We’ll see how DMSO works.
Did I read where some have used CDS and DMSO together orally? Has anyone used it in Autism?
I am writing to you in hopes of finding out how exactly is DMSO used in treating ALS?
I have a dear friend who was recently diagnosed with this dreaded disease.
Thank you so much for these informative articles on DMSO! Are there doctors in MD, PA, or nationwide who treat bulbar onset ALS with IV DMSO? My friend’s mother has been given 6 months to live and is rapidly declining. If not, would oral use provide any benefits?
What about using DMSO in an enema for absorption through the membranes of the colon?
Also could nebulize it to absorb it through the lungs?
Thank you for all you do!!
Trying to determine what the best dose would be to have on hand in the event of stroke. Anyone have a more specific recommendation or source?
Thank you, Doctor, for your selfless commitment of so much time to dispersing free knowledge to the world, knowing that, rather than praise from the medical community, you might inherit severe persecution, as other doctors have. In this action there are surely countless of people who will find true healing and perhaps continued life, because of your efforts, courage and care for your fellow man. There is a lot to digest, in your articles, some of it quite technical for the untrained person, but the message is clear and the dosages usable by anyone.
Is there any use of DMSO for ALS?
Is there a recommended method of applying to the skin? The book I read made everything suspect (i.e cotton balls and napkins could have chemicals) besides spraying it on but this isn't always possible.
I have a spinal cord injury at C4 from 2020. Can DMSO help regrow connections in an area of myelomalacia? I guess it couldn't hurt to try.
I’ve had good results using it for finger joints and head injury. Wondering is there any info on safety using while pregnant
Any idea of I should try this on my daughter with refractory drug resistant epilepsy?
What is the DMSO protocol for stroke victims? My husband is 86 years old and all of his siblings have died from strokes. I would like to know how much DMSO to immediately give him if he has a stroke as well as the DMSO protocol for stroke recovery.
My mum had a stroke 2.5 years ago and she would like to try DMSO. Where do we start for her to try this? Should she apply it topically or take it internally and how much should she apply/take? She is sensitive to medication and is on Amlodipine (with bad side effects so that's our next project after DMSO). Are there interactions with medication and DMSO?
What are your thoughts about use on an invasive squamous cell carcinoma on the nose?
Thank you for this! Am going to try this for varicose veins/chronic venous insufficiency in my ankles and feet. Any chance you will do an article on methylene blue soon?
A lot of other people have already written about it so I was going to wait on that. I have 100s I need to write, so I'm trying to prioritize the things not being discussed by others.
I can appreciate that!
I had a TIA while at work in 2019 at age 48, was hospitalized for 3 days and only missed 2 days work because of a weekend. In the years since I have had the frustration of failing memory in my job, and concerned if age or the TIA was the cause or rather the SARS-Cov2. Though I did become quite ill for 3 to 4 days after traveling to a trade show in February 2020 prior to widespread news of the pandemic, I have never tested positive for Sars-Cov2 or had any of the vaccines.
I received a JAMA newsletter today with details of a study about the TIA topic.
[https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/fullarticle/2830012]
After having read your articles, and sharing with my younger brother who had a paralyzing stroke 12 months ago. We are both discussing a regimen of DMSO to get our life back. I have recently started with a warm water foot soak with DMSO I purchased from a farm supply store via Shop.app, and plan to include oral use, though the odor and taste seem hard to stomach. I hope to report more information in a few months.
Hello, I am looking for veterinary help regarding DMSO and goats.
I have a 12-13 year old goat who experienced thiamine deficiency related paralysis on four or five separate occasions over the past 5-7 years (usually changes to food sources during seasonal change. Unfortunately, I didn’t track those episodes well.
On all occasions aside from the last in late November of 2024 after multivitamin and concentrated thiamine injections he recovered from the paralysis, albeit with changes to his gait.
I had purchased DMSO in October for personal use and had made dilutions of 30% and 70%. I decided to look into using DMSO for my goat when he had gone a week without being able to stand up on his hind legs.
This article suggested that humans with spinal injuries were given subcutaneous DMSO and I decided to utilise the same method. I combined the 70% solution with liquid thiamine and injected it near the location of the spine at which the paralysis seemed to be occurring. Within a half hour of the first 1.5cc dose my goat tried to stand up using his hind legs to push up.
I gave a dose of 1-1.5cc of 70%DMSO SC 3x/day for a few weeks seeing the improvement daily, first building strength to stand for lengths of time with aid to stand and then being able to stand up on his own but needing help to lay back down.
After a few weeks I tapered the injects to 2x/day with no deterioration in ability and then a couple of weeks later to 1x/day. After a couple of weeks I am now seeing a little bit of weakness in the hind legs again and think I may need to increase the dosage again. I could use some guidance however.
I’d appreciate feedback from the veterinary community. With thanks,
Are there any therapists near Frederick MD who are knowledgeable about the dosing and simultaneous use of DMSO along with chlorine dioxide or other non-pharma protocols?
Question - to take orally, 3.5 gm of 20% mixture. No one I know uses grams when cooking in their home. What do3s that equate to for the avg homeowner? I've tried using online calculators and get different results.
My Midwestern Doctor... might you be able to direct me to more info on DMSO & squamous cell carcinoma? Also, are there REALLY Dr's out there who would consider the use of DMSO, & if so... how do I begin to search for one? Any direction or assistance is GREATLY appreciated. Thank you for all of your knowledge & your desire to share this & so much more.
Will write the DMSO cancer articles in the next few weeks.
Thank you. I look forward to reading them.
You mentioned that you’d follow up this article w information on DMSO and MS. Will you be doing this soon?
Probably in about 2 months. I have a huge backlog of topics I am working on.
I have a 13 yr old Belgian Tervuren who had his first seizure in November and the second on New Years Day 2025. Our vet thinks it may be due to a brain tumor- not certain because we can’t afford to do an MRI. Our dog has also smacked his head hard in two different incidents about 2 months ago. I am considering DMSO using whatever delivery system is deemed the most efficacious. I used to give my horse shots in the muscle years ago and figure I can learn to do an IM shot again. I need to figure out the dosage for a 55 lb dog. Also, the ratio of DMSO . Currently,I have 99.9% pure DMSO as well as a formula that has 70% DMSO to 30% Aloe Vera.
Any help with this will be greatly appreciated!!
Thank you,
Dear Midwestern Doctor, I started to read your articles, and I find them very interesting and useful. I have an autoimmune disorder Hashimoto. I was diagnosed 9 months ago. I don't want to take any man made drugs. Does DMSO helps with problems of the thyroid? I would love your help with this. Thank you.
It can help.
Thank you. I feel better with your reply. 🤗
The bottle of DMSO I bought states it's 99.9% pure but it doesn't state how many grams per ML or teaspoonful. The oral recommendation in this article states to start with 3.5g mixed in water. How many ML is that in an 8oz bottle that is 99.9% pure?.
DMSO is slightly denser than water, so you can treat 3.5g as 3.5ml of DMSO.
How does DMSO do anything on its own, either topically or via IV? In the case of the stroke patient, how does mere DMSO (which to my understanding is a solvent) do anything for the stroke on its own? Is it entering the body and dissolving clots?
How much and where on the head does one apply DMSO? This information is invaluable and I thank you with great appreciation for writing and sharing it.
Is DMSO really a contradiction to asthma? Mild case.
I have started using DMSO and I’m experiencing the one side effect mentioned here which is the odour. AMD mentions taking chlorine dioxide along with DMSO to eliminate this side effect. Does anyone have dosing recommendations for the chlorine dioxide? And maybe a source of good quality safe product?
To me, one measure of the worth of an article is how often do you return to it as a reference. I refer to the articles in this series a lot! I'm back now due to a health problem that occurred a couple of days ago. I passed out on an airplane, was taken to an ER, and have a somewhat ambiguous diagnosis. An EKG revealed a right bundle branch block. They think I may have a pulmonary embolism. I'm home now and will certainly follow up with my pulmonologist, but I am wondering if there is some way DMSO can positively affect the situation. (As I've indicated in numerous other comments, I'm using it topically to treat several unrelated things.) Am I on to something with this?
How much DMSO liquid should one take if one suspects one is having a stroke and one is alone in a rural area? You say you have all your relatives have it on hand. Please state a potential safe dosage for this eventuality.
I've always done it on a case by case, but essentially enough to cover the coratids and a few teaspoons orally (spaced out into multiple drinks)
Thank you for answering my question. Since I posted it I’ve read a lot more of your essays and found the answer to my questions. I’ve read some of your things more than once in an effort to understand the nuances and pass your information on to others who can definitely benefit from it. A person or two has even chimed in on an anecdote like the woman who avoided a complicated eye surgery to fix (ill let her explain it, “Geraldine Fuhr May I use it for 4 years in the eyes together with CDS (Andreas Kalcker) . It prevented me of doing a very risky and complex surgery . I have a membrane covering one eye. The membrane was due to the use of cortisone shots.”
Thank you for all you have done and continue to do!
once again thanks for all of this. My husband is recovering from an ischemic stroke in his carotid artery - they went in through his groin up the artery and removed clots and put in a medicated stint. he is recovering well but has lost words and spelling. I am a big believer in dmso but am at a loss as to how it will react to the drugs he is on? right now we are stuck at the hospital where he is being given brilinta, aspirin a statin and anti seizure as he seized while having the stroke.
I plan to get him of the statin and anti seizure med asap, (he will go to inpatient rehab so i might have to wait until after that) as I have herbs that can support and repair vessel health. however the stint slow releases a brilinta type medicine and his doctor will want him on the brilinta for at least 3 months. I am worried about drug interactions and dosing.....
Do you have any info re drug interactions? right now Im defaulting to just waiting 3 months and then replacing the brilinta with dmso but its kind of killing me to think I might be missing an opportunity to aid in his full recovery...
Everything I know is here: https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-remarkable-history-and-safety
Most of the interactions have not been mapped out, but rarely seem to be an issue in clinical practice.
this all just happened 4 days ago ;(
My father unfortunately had a severe stroke a few months ago, since then he has slowly started to recover but is still a long way off where he once was. I've just found out about DMSO and I'm going to start administering a solution soon. I was just wondering about the topical application, once I have made a solution how much should I apply? Is it just a case of wiping the area once with the solution or is there a certain amount needed?
Topical instructions are in this article: https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/dmso-is-a-miraculous-therapy-for
Can you take DMSO if you take other medication. It’s mentioned that you should avoid, but I don’t know too many people in the United States that are not on some medication one or another.
Everything I know is here: https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-remarkable-history-and-safety
Most of the interactions have not been mapped out, but rarely seem to be an issue in clinical practice.
I will share links to these articles with my Ethiopian friend Dr Shitaye Alemy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shitaye_Alemu
100 million+ poor people in Ethiopia need this stuff.
My husband, a former dentist, suffers from essential (non Parkinsonian) tremor and chronic hypertension, but is otherwise completely healthy. Following the standard of care path, he has had 2 DBS procedures, both unsuccessful. I am desperately seeking some alternative that would address this tremor, and/or its source. Effective treatment is nonexistent unless you want to undergo major neurosurgery, which, in our case, was not helpful and possibly detrimental. I am interested in DMSO as a possible treatment for him…..does anyone have any experience or information regarding its use in the area of motor function impairment/ tremor? I am so heartened by this resource, A Midwestern Doc!
I live in the Midwest and have trouble locating practioners the have a holistic, open minded approach. Thank you so much for your comprehensive research and your amazing efforts to share your experience and knowledge!!
Dear Dr. AMD,
I have a two-year-old daughter with Down Syndrome who is quite advanced and functional for her age. She is able to crawl, stand, and has a strong grip.
I’ve started giving her DMSO mixed with juice before bedtime twice a week. (I’d like to increase the frequency, but my wife finds the smell difficult to manage.)
I’ve been considering combining it with Acetyl Glutamine, but I haven’t been able to find any kosher options at my local drugstore. I do have plain Glutamine capsules, but each contains a large dose of about 500 mg. Would this amount be appropriate to mix with her juice and DMSO?
Thank you for your time and guidance.
You should talk to these parents:
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/how-dmso-treats-incurable-autoimmune/comment/73412902
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-remarkable-history-and-safety/comment/72415471
https://theupsidedowns.substack.com
I tried to make a donation but the website kept requesting a "valid email". What is a valid email? Thank you for the very informative info.
You're already a paid subscriber, so the only thing you could do would be to upgrade your account to becoming a founding member.
What would be the best approach for DMSO and MSA?
Oral or IV if you can get it.
You will have to find the dose that works. Start slow and build up.
I am not that familiar with this disease.
Multiple system activity. I just grabbed two people as if ALS in Parkinson’s had a child. It would be MSA.
Where can one get dmso and administer for brain hemorrhage/ischemic stroke
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/dmso-could-save-millions-from-brain
I have put DMSO on her scalp and letting her ingest it 2x a day with juice (1 teaspoon), it has been a week, I have not seen any change. According to your article, there are results within days. She had an ischemic stroke that left her whole right side paralyzed and non verbal on Nov 22,2023. She then had brain hemorrhage with same area (left brain cerebral clot) on January 14, 3 weeks after her discharged from eliquis (blood thinner). Please advise as this DMSO protocol has worked wonders on patients with +5 years post stroke. Can you advise what to do different?
How can I consult with you?
I don't know how helpful this is, but I just saw your comment and thought I would share my own experience. I'm the caregiver for an ischemic stroke survivor. He and I both believe we are seeing improvement due to topical DMSO treatments. We started out using a full tablespoon (twice weekly) applied all over the patient's head (including temples) as well as the spine and the neck (focusing on the front of the neck where the carotid arteries are. The doc mentions in the full article (behind the paywall) that the carotids are a key for topical application because they feed the brain. He also mentions that the stroke protocol ideally involves DMSO by IV. That isn't an option for my patient which is why we do it topically. I wish you and your patient all the best.
This is very helpful. What kind of progress have you seen? My mom is immobile and nonverbal. What is the ratio for dilution for IV and for topical?
So sorry to hear about your Mom. I would be very curious (as I'm sure would others) to know if you eventually observe any change from using DMSO. The biggest (and most consistent) change we've seen is that the patient went from only being able to eat very small portions (due to impaired swallow function) to eating full meals. His appetite and sense of taste also returned. His speech is still very much up and down depending on whether it's a good day or a bad one, but I'm fairly confident that it has improved overall since starting the DMSO. As for dilution, we started out doing straight DMSO topically since the patient doesn't seem to have any skin irritation from it. But we always followed it with magnesium oil as that was advised on another website. Ultimately we switched to mixing DMSO with the magnesium oil so that it comes out to 75% DMSO -- 3 tsp DMSO with 1 tsp magnesium. I haven't read the IV information very closely because that's not an option for us. If you're reading the comments here, doesn't that mean you've paid the $7 subscription fee? That should allow you to read the doctor's specific dosing info, including about IV administration (scroll to the bottom of the article to see it.) I hope you and your Mom can get some relief.
I wish the article clearly outline how to apply it but it’s all case studies with guesstimate applications for specific individuals. I’ve re-read it 6 times, I only see scalp, oral ingestion and IV at 5% dilluted with saline but more effective with a chemical I cannot find.
Here's what the doc said about applying it to the neck (addressing the carotids)
"My somewhat unique approach (which seems to work but I simply don’t have enough data on) is to apply DMSO topically to the artery that feeds the area of the stroke.
Most commonly this is either the left or right carotid (the major artery you can feel on the front of your neck). In most cases, strokes in the arteries the carotids feed (e.g., the MCA) tend to affect the opposite side of the body. So if there is a right sided facial droop or numbness and weakness on the right side, that tells me there is an issue in the left MCA, and DMSO needs to be applied to the L. carotid artery. If possible when applying DMSO, I also have the person lie down so that when applying DMSO the gravity will pull it to the artery below, but that is often not practical (and I am still not sure how much it matters).
Additionally, strokes can often occur in other parts of the brain (e.g., those fed by a vertebral artery), so exactly which artery I tell them to prioritize depends on the situation. That said, applying it anywhere on the skin will still get it into the body, and I often also instruct people to apply it to both carotids."
I would appreciate knowing if there is a protocol for a stroke that has affected the vestibular system.
My sister had a cerebral stroke October, 2023 and after a year of various kinds of therapy, still has balance and dizzy/woozie issues but no other remnants of the stroke. Consequently, she is afraid to get out of her wheelchair except to use her upright walker for fear of falling. She is 79 years old, diabetic, but otherwise healthy.
Drink and put on vertebral arteries, and get IV DMSO if you can find someone who offers it.
Thank you. Your reply and all you do is much appreciated.
Would you please comment on the following disturbing research paper that seems to reveal the dark side of DMSO? Here is the link: doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0107447. The authors' conclusion is that DMSO damages mitochondrial integrity, that is, messes up its functionality. It is an old paper going back about 10 years whose study target was cultured astrocytes.
Your DOI is not clickable, Britepeace. Would you mind citing the title of the article, date, and lead author so I can look it up? Thank you.
What is the half life of DSMO? How long does it stay in system after oral ingestion? So if taking supplements it doesn’t interact
"Note: in one study of rats, radio-labeled DMSO was found to enter all tissues of the body within 30 minutes (with the highest levels seen in the plasma, kidney, spleen, lung, heart, and testes and the lowest in the lens of the eye), with DMSO levels declining to minimal levels after 24 hours, while another study found orally administered DMSO reached a peak blood level in 4 hours and was undetectable after 120 hours, while MSM appeared in the blood after 48 hours and disappeared after 400 hours (with another human study finding similar results)."
What concentration of DMSO would you recommend in eye drops? I have a “bubble” on my retina and would like to try DMSO before committing to surgery.
That is in the DMSO and the eyes article
AMD- THANK YOU for your wonderful articles on DMSO (and many other topics). I became a subscriber because I have been so impressed.
I hope you can answer a few questions.
1. I had a hemorrhagic stroke in my cerebellum in 2018. (AVM and aneurysm) Craniotomy performed, subsequent hydrocephalus developed, and VP shunt placed. I wish I had known about DMSO then! I had bad vestibular issues (Imbalance, dizziness, vertigo and nausea/vomiting). I still have some mild vestibular issues after 6 years but am mostly recovered. Is there any benefit to using DMSO for this issue at this point? Topically? Orally?
I use it topically (full strength from DMSO store) for very painful hand arthritis (with only a little benefit). I am considering taking it internally for this and other arthritic and musculoskeletal pains. Do you think internally would have more benefit for chronic arthritis?
Thank you for all you do!
Try both and see which is better for you.
I found an Neuropath that does DMSO IV! Where can I find your recommendations/research on dosing for IV? I want to do some research myself before I see what he offers. You have so many wonderful articles but not sure if this is in one of them.
Thank you!
*Naturopath
Thank you for all the information. I purchased the red labeled bottle referenced in the article. How do you figure out the dosing for oral use. I see the reference in the article to dilute to a 20% solution. Then there is the reference to 3.5gms daily or 0.5 -1g/kg. How do you calculate these dosages based on the bottle being 70%DMSO/30%distilled water. In an 8oz bottle.
Thanks for your help
See what I wrote here!
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/how-dmso-treats-incurable-autoimmune
Thank you
For post-stroke recovery for my husband, I have 70% gel from Jacob Lab. What are your suggestions for how much to apply and how long to keep it on? The lab said to wipe it off after 5 minutes because the gel does not absorb into the body. Five minutes seems a short time.
I use the 70% cream and never wipe it off.
Is there a way to save this article as a PDF so I can read it offline?
All articles in pdf format : https://substack.com/@ryoho/p-152815823
What could you benefit from taking dmso orally prophylacticly? What dose and interval would this be? Would it lower BP or improve cholesterol? Improve metabolism or reduce cancer risk. Improve cardiovascular health?
Some people do, but too hard to predict what the benefits would be.
Would you recommend DMSO for childhood autism? If so, how administered and with what dosage and frequency.
I do not have enough data on this one
I’m wondering the same thing, Christopher.
Hey Patti...I am another retired CPA doing the exact same thing!
Thank you Neil.
I'm almost 70, and have been reacquainted** with DMSO for about 3 months. I purchased some 70% gel in aloe vera, and some 99.998% liquid. I'll be very interested to see your upcoming protocols for use. I've purchased several books on DMSO, and all are sorely lacking in telling you how to use what form for what condition. Lots of accolades and testimonials, but not a lot of use to me. I originally got it in hope of treating peripheral neuropathy of my arm and hand. (I had an EMG a few years ago, and it revealed some impingement at the inner elbow, as well as some mild carpal tunnel.) I've lost about 50% of the feeling and dexterity in my dominant hand. I can barely write, and can no longer play my guitar. (Some would argue that I couldn't play when healthy, but that's another discussion!) I've been using the 70% topically 2-3 times daily for about 2 months, and haven't noticed much improvement. Am I using this correctly? (**My Mom got very enthused about DMSO back in the 1970's. I believed the mainstream "debunking" and dismissed it until recently.) Let me add my sincere thanks to you for this terrific Substack!
If you haven't responded to it, you either:
Won't respond to it.
Need liquid rather than gel (probably this).
May want to try taking it orally.
Thanks for the reply! It already had occurred to me that I may not respond, given how long the condition has persisted. My wife is urging me not to give up, but to give it sufficient time. I agree with her, and will switch to applying the full strength liquid for the remainder of this "trial." What quantity/strength liquid (presumably in water?) do you recommend, and how often?
70-90% 1-3 times a day as you can tolerate
Everyone of these products has a super long lead time on Amazon, and I need it quickly. Anyone know a source that ships right away?
I think I got everyone out of stock...
I just joined because I saw this on X. Your work is amazing. Is it safe to use DMSO if taking a daily low dose aspirin due to heart attack & stents 5 years ago or will it increase the anticoagulant effect of the aspirin? Also, can it safely be used to replace the daily aspirin? If so, what dosage and would it be oral or topical?
I can't give you a good answer to that. In the most recent post I wrote about the contradindications with anticoagulants (what's known) and in here I cited a study where it was used to prevent clotting in a stent. My *opinion* is that you don't have a bleeding risk with low dose aspirin, but I don't have enough data to say that with confidence. In terms of replacing anticoagulants, the data isn't there to say if it does or does not function as an effective replacement (although I could see a variety of reasons why it could).
You have done a great service! Reading this I couldn't help but wondering how it would have helped my father who suffered from a stroke and died 5 months later. Do you think this would help my chronic migraines? I have moderate headaches but can have severe dizziness, nausea and aura. I imagine it's worth a try!
I wrote about that in the second part. DMSO isn't as effective for migraines, and typically works the best if done at the very start of the headache.
Thank you for your response. Can you recommend a provider that has helped individuals with autism?
Thank you, It just seem that if her autism is a result of childhood vaccinations, etc., and studies show how it help those from the Covid-19 shots that it might help others from all vaccination injuries.
I have a friend with brain cancer. Do you have any specific info on dmso and brain cancer that I can share? Studies, dosing, etc…
Yes but that likely won't be ready by the time you need it and I can't soundbite it in a comment. Some of it can be found in Morton Walker's book DMSO Nature's Healer.
Thanks so much for your quick response and recommendation. I’ll order the book…
God bless you!
Would DMSO help if I applied it topically to my neuromas on my feet? I have a neuroma on the ball of each foot and would love to try it....
See part 2.
Thanks.
I would love to use DMSO for knee pain, but my husband objects to the smell, particularly on my breath. What can I do to ameliorate that?
I will write more about that in a later article. There are a lot of approaches, all of which somewhat work. You can also time DMSO use so that the odor is not present during the night.
Thanks. That raises the question, how long does the odor last?
That is discussed in this post.
Could DMSO treat systolic heart failure likely caused by chemotherapy?
Possibly, have not tried it for that.
Could DMSO be used to treat systolic heart failure resulting from chemotherapy?
Normally we use heart peptides and then stem cells (and amino acids) for that (which is a fairly complex process), but I could see DMSO working too; just have never tried it.
Where can I purchase DSMO?
I gave the links in the last part of this article.
Do you know where I could find more information on using DMSO for ALS?
There isn't any besides what I wrote here. I found a passing reference to someone else using it in that way, and one of my mentors taught me that application earlier in my career. It's basically just if you use IV DMSO, it stops the progression of ALS.
Hey Doc, there’s this gal on s-stack who says this hype over dmso is dangerous. It is an industrial waste. Similar to fluoride, a waste product put to use. A solvent we rub on our body or ingest. Similar stackers are calling out the vitamin industry as toxic chemical pushers. As well as the novel discovery of old drugs as treatment for cancers, c19, etc…
So, in a sense we see: allopathic medicine pushing drugs when alternative measures would seemingly help (vitamins, herbs, etc..) with trad. docs stating, all poppycock! Then we have alt docs condemning drugs, many, like statins, saying they are dangerous, merely cash cows. Offering instead, vitamins, other supplements to help out. Next, we have stackers calling out the alt docs and their treatments, ie, Vit D, dmso, b vitamins. Stating chemical killers.
Who is one to believe?
https://substack.com/home/post/p-144257593
My inclination is to believe that those calling out the alt methods were put in place by big pharma or other so as to confuse the consumer, it’s working, I might add. However, My understanding is that big Pharma has bought many vitamin/supplement companies. What might that mean?
But… and it’s a big one, when the public realized all these prescription meds were toxic/cash cows, they turned to other avenues. Did pharma anticipate this turning away?
Any thoughts welcome. A tangled web. I enjoy your writing.
She is not familiar with the history of DMSO and is blurring it with what happened with Fluoride
Thanks.
For an old spinal cord injury C3-5 would DMSO be applied on the scar? Might it reduce spasticity? A friend has had multiple cervical surgeries and relies heavily on opioids for pain management. How would she start using DMSO?
That would be the best place to start. Sometimes it needs to be injected into the area.
As far as topical application, if I wanted to apply it to an area of eczema after showering in am prior to work, how long should I leave it on before dressing? I’ve been trying the gel. It gets sticky so I have to wash off before dressing. Would the liquid work differently, better?
Skin applications will be later in series.
Brilliant series, thanks so much! Love remembering the forgotten!
Great article. I enjoy all your articles and I'm glad I subscribed. Can DMSO help improve circulation to the optic nerve? I started taking 1/2 teaspoon in coffee in the morning.
Yes, that will be later in the series.
Since it enables transport across the Blood brain barrier should we be fasting for oral administration?
Not needed
Followup: Having found a half life of sixteen hours this point seems moot.
Great info! Any research on DMSO treatment for cardiac amyloidosis?
Thanks
everything I could find was here
Thanks for the reply. Any idea if DMSO is safe to take with Eliquis or stents
Just answered that in the most recent article.
PLEASE, HELP!!!! Will DMSO affect the absorption of Ivermectin and FenBen for cancer treatment? My brother is in terrible pain, and I want to offer DMSO if I'm confident that it won't negatively affect his cancer fighting protocol.
I don't know. My best guess is that it will enhance the cancer treatment, but it could also make the drugs become more potent and have side effects.
Great question. I should have gone thru All comments - I asked a few questions along these lines. Have to research it. I am taking it with fenben, but only a teaspoon or less 444mg FBen
My sister had a stroke 2 1/2 months ago. Left carotid artery was blocked. She is in a rehabilitation facility, making very slow progress. Still paralyzed on her right side and unable to speak. Would DMSO help at this stage, and how much?
Yes just not as much as if I had been done at the start.
Wow, still making my way through this article, but thank you so much for your work on this. What caught my eye and got me to subscribe is the mention of DMSO for Down Syndrome--my 48-yr old sister has DS and I was shocked that something could actually help. I told my mother about this, and she was shocked as well because when my sister was born, she asked around about anything that could help and was always told no. I'm assuming it would be too late for my sister (high functioning DS).
Also, do you think DMSO could help Benzo-induced neurological dysfunction (BIND)? Dr. Christy Huff talks about BIND here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOkKEnvJfAM&t=8s
Apparently, the damage from the benzos is to the GABA receptors.
As far as I know, all the successful cases for down syndrome were uses on young ages, so I'm not sure if it would help a 48 year old.
Thanks for another great article. Do you think DMSO could cure my Morton’s Neuroma? I’ve tried steroid shots to no avail and will avoid surgery unless it becomes too painful to walk
That was in the second part of this series.
Has anyone evaluated using Heiltropfen brand DMSO, which has a low odor side effect?
I am not familiar with that one.
I questioned on the other article about it. I am having barely any side effects using 95 percent even on face and was wondering if it was normal. My wife did have an itchy neck at 50 percent. It seems to be working for me ....this morning my neck cracked a lot and it feels looser.
I took some orally last night and this morning and don't seem garlicky. I feel good so I guess it's okay?
Just seems weird and I am part ginger.
Let me know how it is for you? I just ordered for quick shipping.
As much as I'm tempted to try it, studies like this make me hesitant https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5377396/
"In summary, DMSO at low concentrations showed toxic properties in the blood cells, inducing RBCs hemolysis [...]"
1) It happens at a fairly high concentration (which I explained here).
2) Hemolysis is a common issue with intravenous integrative therapies and predominantly affects the weakest blood cells (that often will be eliminated anyways).
What is the upper intake limit for oral use? Multiple doses per day?
You won't hit the hemolysis concentration through consuming it orally
thank you, going to give it a try topically
Doc, what do you think of methylene blue?
While looking to buy some DMSO I came across offers for a combination of methylene blue and DMSO.
Does anybody here has a recommendation on that one?
Methylene Blue is not one of my areas of knowledge so I haven't written much on it.
Mercola has recommended MB.
MB is great to fire up the mitochondria. Use it in place of coffee in morning.
I know you worked incredibly hard on this piece, but I couldn’t get through it. The animal studies were too horrific for me to handle. I left microbiology due to squeamish reactions to hurting innocent critters. Later in life I cared for and helped others care for their pets — especially bunnies. I know you share my concerns and are compassionate, so you do understand my inability to read further about important lifesaving DMSO treatment.
I hope you can eventually write a summary explaining that very sad animal studies led to research showing the great benefits of DMSO, linking to your in-depth article, then providing a list of symptoms/ conditions for which DMSO works and suggested methods of administration. This suggestion may be too difficult to implement, and I truly understand how it would be. But I couldn’t help asking.
The animal studies need to be listed. Otherwise people will insist they have to be done again before DMSO can be used on humans. When the abridged one is written I'll be sure to send it to you!
I understand about the animal studies. Oddly, the same folks who insist on animal studies seem to have no problem injecting humans with untested, unproven, experimental drugs, vaccines, and other substances of dubious nature.
Thank you so much for your attention to detail and your impeccable integrity. I look forward to the abridged article. I share your work widely.
The book “Healing with DSMO” says not to drink alcohol while using DSMO. Yet the author on talks about lethal doses of each. Doc, your opinion for moderate drinker of red wine?
better not to mix them
I am so excited I happened across this. Thank you so so very much. I am reading it my third time. Just so much amazing info.
My sister is labeled under the autism spectrum; the disability she acquired from childhood immunizations in the 1970s. Can her brain be unlocked? As I have read about the zeta potential, sludging of fluids in the body, and DMSO, I have hope! I was wondering about soaking her feet in DMSO/water solution??? Would adding magnesium flakes be beneficial??
I just updated it a lot again!
I have so far only found one study which reported it helped autism, but it was very old and probably not applicable to now. No one I know presently has used DMSO for autism, so I truthfully can't say.
Chlorine Dioxide
She has a whole protocol for autism
Kerri Rivera - Mom, Holistic & Autism Expert-1st 25 minutes is about CD… https://odysee.com/@VaultOfSecrecy:5/Kerri-Rivera-Chlorine-Dioxide-Reverses-Autism:b. - https://kerririvera.com
Thanks Ginger,
Checking it out.
In 1983 my brother was in horrible car accident in northern Wisconsin. He was flown to Froedtert Hospital to operate on his skull and brain. After he was let out the hospital after many weeks, the doc gave him a jar of white cream with silver. This healed my brother’s incisions and patches miraculously along with sunlight. I even used it for my sports abrasions. I am wondering if this cream contained DSMO.
Very likely
I wish I had time to read this several more times. The basic takeaway is that it helps restore nervous system problems or helps nerves and tissue grow.
The anecdote about the dentist’s Down syndrome patient fascinates me. …the improvement in cranial bone growth and shape. Seems like dmso is optimizing flow…blood, maybe cerebrospinal fluid. And this improved flow is removing situations that are thwarting growth.
Excited to know if it can cure vaccine injuries, which are all nerve damage imo. Maybe it goes back to zeta potential at its root. Don’t understand enough to conceptualize correctly. I’m excited to know if it can help those with years of wear from sleep apnea…after all, sleep apnea causes high blood pressure right?
I don’t understand the dosage instructions for oral. For topical, how much should be applied at one time for an area? How many times per day? Sounds like people are spraying it on or using a dropper and then rubbing in?
The burn recovery…also fascinating. A friend used beta-glucan product made from oats…manufactured in St. Paul, Mn…on his face burns, but not on arms or ankles. No scars in his face but scars left on arms and ankles. I wonder if dmso can get same results. Sounds like it!
We have a roll-on tube (70% dmso, 30% aloe) for applying topically. I’ve been putting drops 99% pure in a glass of water in the am and seeing how my stomach feels, then increasing as I can tolerate it next day. My wife applies 99% pure to her feet toes ankles 3 times a day. Hope this helps.
Well I wish I’d read this on march 7 because on march 8th I had an ischemic stroke, 40 miles off coast of Florida. Logistical nightmare trying to get to a hospital quickly. This is exciting to say the least. I want everything DMSO can do for me now, every improvement is huge. Can I see you? Where are you? I’m in Minneapolis, are there any like minded doctors here you’re aware of? You can email me at maaktwo@gmail.com or dm and I can give phone. Thank you! Jon
I can't give referrals through here.
Incredible work! Thank you, very much appreciated.
So interesting! Good to know!
I was wondering if there are different measurements than grams. I know cc's, ml, tsp, tbsp but not grams and kilograms.
Great article - I ordered some today!
For substances with density near 1 (like water or DMSO), you can treat gram, cc, and mL as equivalent. If you are using a solution of 70% DMSO, then 1 cc (the same as 1 mL) will have approximately 0.7 gram DMSO.
And/or see this earlier comment thread: https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/dmso-could-save-millions-from-brain/comment/69148001
I guess you will cover this in future articles: When not to use DMSO? For some persons - I guess - on certain medications using DMSO might be risky.
I have osteoarthritis that affects most joints. I had 3 heart stents placed in 2021 and am on Plavix daily. Can DMSO be taken concurrently with Plavix, or is it contraindicated due to its effects on platelets? Thank you!
Thank you for another excellent piece.
Do you think DMSO would ease symptoms of type 1 narcolepsy?
Where is the best place to find DMSO for topical
use ,
I cannot afford IV.
the two brands I showed are on Amazon. Will write more on this later.
Is there any issue w.r.t. Tau phosphorylation as mentioned in this article?
Dimethyl Sulfoxide Induces Both Direct and Indirect Tau Hyperphosphorylation located at
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3386937/
No way to know with certainty (I read that paper too) but most likely not.
Thank you, very much, for your answer and the great resource that your work is to me!
Blair Hills
I doubt that you'll see this, and maybe you won't care, but after you posted this article, there is someone named Geoff Pain PHD who is bad-mouthing you and DMSO here on substack.
https://geoffpain.substack.com/p/dimethyl-sulfoxide-deaths-and-neurotoxicity?utm_medium=android&triedRedirect=true
See this comment: https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/dmso-could-save-millions-from-brain/comment/69171079
"I've been following Geoff for a while now in spite of the fact that he's occasionally taken these sorts of potshots at people. This one is particularly egregious and cowardly however, as 1. he has no qualms about commenting on other peoples posts, so I don't know why he doesn't do so here to initiate a potentially illuminating dialogue, and 2. he put his article behind a paywall so people can't respond to get a public dialogue going there.
Regardless of what happens here, given the numerous deaths under "mysterious circumstances" of people who've stepped on the toes of pharma and mainstream medicine, this call to "unmask" you is vile and reprehensible."
My reply was:
1) I feel its a bit premature for him to write that before the rest of this series comes out as many of the points he's mentioning will be addressed.
2) I read through the FAERS reports in the process of writing all of this. He did not interpret or depict them correctly.
3) The fact that he used a sensationalistic headline and then paywalled the rest of the article suggests his motivation was to make money not empower people or have the crucial information that could "protect people from being killed by DMSO" be known.
4) People like that are a fact of life, but it's still sad they don't consider the harm they create by pushing people away from things that can really help people.
DMSO, The Fountain Of Youth? Sounds like it.
Different medical subject.
in the event you may have run across this… any idea how to find out how to ingest these caffeic-acid-based quantum dots that seem to address neurodegenerative diseases and are DIY from baking coffee grounds?
https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/coffee-grounds-could-prevent-alzheimers-parkinsons-and-other-neurodegenerative-diseases/
When you mention diluting DMSO for taking orally, do you start with 100% DMSO or one that is already diluted to 50% or 70%
either, that's why I listed the dose in grams rather than mL
AMWDr, thank you for this. I'm amazed. Looking forward to the rest of the series. :-)
I've often noticed, and friends have commented, that sea air seems to make one feel both invigorated and drowsy at the same time.
Is there enough DMSO in sea air to induce an effect like this?
It's probably the negative ions.
Do you know of any information related to its use in or effect on epilepsy?
There are a few studies on this (e.g., this one shows DMSO helps https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7615238/) but I didn't cover it because it hasn't been a major focus of DMSO research. I could see why it would help (and some of the reports I read suggested it had in cases) but I don't know enough on this subject, so I didn't want to present theories I could not back up.
I ran into the behavior analyst Chase Hughes' video and how he's cured and reversed his degenerative brain disease using high doses melatonin and methylene blue. That video on it is on his YouTube channel. He talks about the science and the doctor who helped him, who also is on podcasts Hope this helps.
My adult son had 3 epileptic seizures on Tuesday due to a covid infection although his epilepsy was well controlled. How does DMSO help epilepsy? Does it raise the seizure threshold? Another son has high functioning autism with OCD. Would he need to wean off his antidepressants to try DMSO to treat the OCD? Any benefits for autism? Lastly, can prion disease be treated with DMSO? No other treatments exist for this fatal disease. Thank you for this informative paper.
There are a few studies on this (e.g., this one shows DMSO helps https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7615238/) but I didn't cover it because it hasn't been a major focus of DMSO research. I could see why it would help (and some of the reports I read suggested it had in cases) but I don't know enough on this subject, so I didn't want to present theories I could not back up.
Thank you very much. My husband has idiopathic peripheral neuropathy in both hands and both feet. (Well, the docs say it’s idiopathic, but odd that it all started soon after he contracted multiple tick diseases!). We’ve tried all the AMA meds and creams plus the Lyme tinctures, infrared sauna, etc. The only thing that has remotely helped is rubbing in black sesame seed oil. Is DMSO something he could try? I don’t understand application. Do you just put a small dab on the skin and let it absorb throughout the body?
I looked up contraindications and saw sedatives on the list. He does take those at night to sleep. I assume we would apply the DMSO in the morning?
Finally, what is the safest application to be sure you are not allergic? I would assume it would be application on the skin in a very small amount.
Correct. It absorbs into body.
Thank you Dr. Great article! I just ordered a bottle to have on hand.
I will also try on my baby toe which won’t move after broken calcaneus surgery 7 months ago. It affects my balance in yoga and I am hopeful.